DMD VS2017 Support

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 22 April 2017 at 02:22:56 UTC, NotSpooky wrote:
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> I don't have Windows so I don't know if this has changed, but 
> last time I tried to install dmd there it asked to install VS 
> 2013, I know some people that didn't want to install DMD 
> because VS is huge, now that the build tools are an option 
> maybe that's the one the installer should suggest (or maybe 
> even suggest both).

Realistically, anyone who does serious Windows development is 
likely going to have Visual Studio installed anyway. The build 
tools are fine for the rest, but anyone wanting to use Visual D 
will need VS. Since the installer offers to install Visual D, it 
only makes sense to offer to install VS. It might be good to 
offer a choice between the build tools and VS, or at the very 
least offer links to the build tools and more recent versions of 
VS to be installed manually.