Note from a donor

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/26/2017 08:36 AM, jmh530 wrote:
> 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".

I am preparing a request for Microsoft to allow us to redistribute some 
of their binaries. Of course we want to do that only if deemed necessary 
(they are not available easily from their site etc). Any help building 
an exact list of requisites would be great. Thanks! -- Andrei