It makes me sick!

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 12:48:37 UTC, Grander wrote:
> On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 12:40:27 UTC, rjframe wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:14:16 +0000, FoxyBrown wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can make any claim you want like: "The end user should 
>>> install in to a clean dir so that DMD doesn't get confused 
>>> and load a module that doesn't actually have any 
>>> implementation" but that's just your opinion.
>>
>> I have never seen extracting into the directory as a supported 
>> upgrade path for anything except the simplest of applications 
>> and a few PHP projects that supply a migration script.
>
> Well, any other installer would have done the required cleanup 
> in such a case.

One of the reasons to extract a zip instead of using an installer 
is that you want to replace only certain files. There's nothing 
reasonable about this argument.