Note from a donor

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 11:32:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>
> A wizard-style installation with links to things and a good 
> flow might help a lot here. Is that possible? -- Andrei

The DMD installer is already a Wizard on Windows.

First it checks if you have a current version of D and will 
uninstall that, then it checks if you want to install D2 along 
with some extras (Visual D, DMC, D1), and it goes through 
additional steps to install the extras if you select them.

However, if you need Visual Studio installed, then that takes 
like a half an hour. My recollection is that it's a little tricky 
if you upgrade to a new version of VS. I usually just uninstall D 
and reinstall it rather than deal with that.

I would have to uninstall MSVC to figure out how annoying it 
would be to install without one (and that's a bit of a hassle). I 
can't remember at what point it checks for MSVC, maybe before 
installing Visual D?

One thing that might slightly simplify things is if the smallest 
free MSVC you can install is provided as optional if no MSVC 
installation is found. Some note can be added like "Required for 
64bit binaries".