Release D 2.078.0

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Monday, 8 January 2018 at 07:56:18 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak 
> wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>>
>> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio 
>> installation paths, an integral promotion transition for unary 
>> operations on byte and short sized integers, more -betterC 
>> features, and a couple of language and library tweaks.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 
>> https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
>>
>> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.078.0/ 
>> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html
>>
>> - -Martin
>
> It seems vs-auto-detection does not work with the Visual Studio 
> 2017 Community version:
>
> I executed "vcvars64.bat". After that environment variable PATH 
> contains following
> entries:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\bin\HostX64\x64;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCPackages;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
> ...
>
> dmd app.d -m64
> Error: can't run 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\VC\\bin\link.exe', check PATH
>

Note the double backslash, its getting confused.