Sign the installers

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 17:59:42 Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6/27/2018 5:34 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 17:26:36 Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >> I guess people feel nervous about installing allegedly potentially
> >> dangerous software on their corporate workstation.
> >
> > Honestly, that's exactly the sort of thing that I always ignore. I'd pay
> > attention if anti-virus software outright said that it found a virus,
> > but
> > "unrecognized software?" That's exactly the sort of thing that's just
> > going to get me pissed off at Microsoft for getting in my way. Though
> > honestly, Microsoft pops up so many useless messages that it becomes
> > easy to miss any that actually matter, because you have to skip through
> > so many of them all the time that you stop paying attention to them.
> > So, I'm definitely surprised to hear about programmers refusing to
> > install something just because Microsoft doesn't recognize it.
> >
> > - Jonathan M Davis
>
> It's all about removing resistance and raising the level of
> professionalism.  D isn't a hobby project and shouldn't act like one.
> This is an obvious barrier that's worth removing.  In this day and age
> of rampant actively dangerous software, it's an obvious improvement to
> sign it and make the strong claim that this is produced and vended by
> the d foundation and we vouch for it's contents.  We already do for some
> (all?) of the posix distribution bundles.

Well, as I said in my initial response, I have no problem with the installer
being signed. I'm just surprised that any programmers would care.

- Jonathan M Davis