D needs to get its shit together!

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2017-06-16 09:53, Mike B Johnson wrote:
>> DVM [1] is doing some of this.
>
> Cool, does it keep things well organized

It depends on what you definition of organized. DVM is a tool that 
allows you to easily install D compilers. It also allows to easily 
switch between multiple versions of the compiler. That is, you can have 
one window (terminal) with one version and another window with another 
version.

On Posix it installs everything ~/.dvm. Each compiler is placed in its 
own directory, it's mostly the zip archives available on dlang.org 
unpacked. Here's an example of how the directory structure looks like on 
Posix:

$ tree -L 2 .dvm
.dvm
├── archives
│   ├── dmd.2.073.0.osx.zip
│   ├── dmd.2.074.0-b1.osx.zip
│   └── dmd.2.074.0.osx.zip
├── bin
│   ├── dmd-2.073.0
│   ├── dmd-2.074.0
│   ├── dmd-2.074.0-b1
│   ├── dvm
│   ├── dvm-current-dc
│   ├── dvm-default-dc
├── compilers
│   ├── dmd-2.073.0
│   ├── dmd-2.074.0
│   ├── dmd-2.074.0-b1
├── env
│   ├── default
│   ├── dmd-2.073.0
│   ├── dmd-2.074.0
│   ├── dmd-2.074.0-b1
└── scripts
     └── dvm

> and deals with windows issues(link.exe., dlls, etc) or just uses the "D way" which is a hairball?

I'm not that familiar with Windows (the Windows support was contributed 
by another developer) so I'm not sure which issues you refer to.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg