[dmd-beta] Well, I keep trying to do the release

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:39:18 -0400
Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > But, as it is with git itself, it's best not to use [github] with
> > Windows or any Windows programs.
> 
> Firefox is a windows program, no?
> 

GitHub is only barely/partially usable in my copy of FF...(Although
that's probably not so much the fact that it's FF as which version of
FF and how its configured...)

> I suppose it's not really the same, since visual source safe doesn't
> come with Windows, but still... you went through the trouble of
> installing git, why wouldn't you consider installing another browser
> just for github access?

Ick, why should GitHub expect people to do that? A person has already
made their choice of browser. GitHub has no business expecting them to
use GitHub with *GitHub's* choice of browser. It's a web browser, it
should just fucking work.

> Seems like it would be easier than dealing
> with half-assed support from github.
> 
> I have opera installed on my computer just to read the D newsgroups.
> I don't use it as a browser.  I just think of it as my D newsgroup
> tool.
> 

I switch over to Opera when I have to deal with GitHub, but I curse
about it every time because I hate Opera (Just not quite as much as Iron(Chrome)).

> Oh, and there's also http://windows.github.com/  Seems like they've
> done a lot of work since the first release, maybe it's less buggy.
> 

I was excited about that until I tried it. Aside from having an
absolutely wretched UI, it's completely useless. And I do mean
completely useless. It doesn't provide browserless GitHUb access,
instead it's nothing more than a really bad substitute for
TortoiseGit. It's ONLY for dealing with LOCAL repos, not GitHub.