LDC 1.24.0-beta1

[Johan Engelen]

On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:21:56 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 17:36:11 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 16:08:47 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> It's an option but doesn't fill the need for an installer. 
>>> Not sure why its hasn't been done.
>>
>> See https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1754.
>
> From the discussions, it seems you still don't see the value of 
> an installer...backing it with the idea that LDC is for 
> "developers". I'm a developer myself and I use installers all 
> the time when on Windows...there are very few people I 
> personally know who would go for an archive file to set it up 
> themselves.
>
> So not everyone is like you. The reason why I personally go for 
> DMD over LDC is convenience (especially when introducing D to 
> newbies)...even though LDC is more optimized for performance.
>
> Unless what you guys are doing is an artificial barrier to get 
> others to not use it.

Guys, all points have been made, there is no wrong and right 
here, let's stop arguing over this.

What is needed is someone who thinks it is useful to have an exe 
installer and wants to do the work. It cannot be done by someone 
who thinks it is not useful, because there are decisions to be 
made (like which folder to install it in, whether to overwrite 
old or not), that can only be made by someone who actually cares 
about it. There is no point in trying to convince kinke or me.

I'm sure noone will be against uploading the installer exe onto 
github release page once it's been made and checked.

-Johan