how to install?

[glen worstell]

Kris Wrote:

> eeek ... this is quite wrong Glen, but hopefully some of that can be 
> remedied:
> 
> ...

Thanks for the excellent description of a situation that is more complicated than I had indicated. Your description should be very helpful to anyone first learning about d. It would be nice if it could be posted in a place that new people might be more likely to find. Perhaps Walter would put it on his web site?

However, I stand by the main claim of my post: I have to choose between using d 2.x and phobos, or d 1.x and tango. As far as I can tell, and your post does not contradict this; I cannot use d2.x with tango (on windows). The comment that I am "quite wrong" seems to be an issue with semantics rather than substance, at least from a user's point of view. 

Furthermore, d 2.x is different enough from d 1.x that I, and probably many users, would prefer to use it. I also have the impression that bugs will be fixed faster in d2.x, although I could be wrong about this. As d is evolving I'd like to use the latest version, which can be done with phobos and not with tango.

If I am incorrect and it is possible to use d 2.x with tango, please let me know how to do it, and I will apologize and post a correction with instructions. My ultimate goal was (is) to describe to newbies how to simply install both versions of compiler/library on windows xp, and why they need to choose before building a substantial application, because d/phobos is not the same language or library as d/tango, and d/phobos/tango is not the same language as d/phobos (if you use the d2.x version of d/phobos). I do think that perhaps I should modify my newbie instructions to include the third choice, d/phobos/tango, as it might be a better choice than d/tango. I've not tried it yet, but will do so soon.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify the issues as you see them. To summarize my understanding: it seems to me that the user, on windows, today, has 4 choices:

d1.x/phobos
d2.x/phobos
d1.x/tango
d1.x/phobos/tango

Does this seem correct to you?

g.

PS - Nowhere in my posts have I mentioned the 500 different versions of linux. However, if it is possible to use d2.x/tango/phobos (or just d2.x/tango)  on one of the common linux versions, I'll dump windows for my d evaluation. :)