It makes me sick!

[FoxyBrown via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 21:35:01 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
> On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 21:23:22 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
>> So, the program, if it is updated shouldn't use the mp3's 
>> then. Why the hell is the program that you say was upgraded to 
>> use the ogg still searching and using mp3's? You are trying to 
>> make up reasons why it shouldn't work... at least come up with 
>> valid reasons.
>
> I'm sorry if I'm not expressing it in a way that agrees with 
> you but you're looking at the wrong side of the example. You're 
> pasting one set of files onto another and expect the software 
> to somehow know to ignore some of them.

YES! EXACTLY! I AM EXPECTING THE SOFTWARE, WHICH IS WHAT THE 
PROGRAMMER CREATED AND HANDLES THE FILES TO ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT 
THE HELL IT IS DOING!

I'm sorry if that is too complex to understand.

If the software has some build in design that makes it use 
arbitrary files in a specific way like it does with std.datetime, 
then it should have sanity checks.

After all, who the hell knows more about dmd using std.datetime 
and how it uses it and such, the end user or the programmer of 
dmd?

You are expecting the end user, who generally knows very little 
to do the dirty work instead of having the programmer who is 
suppose to know what the fuck is going on to add sanity checks, 
useful error messages, etc.

Ali suggested a very reasonable solution that would have solved 
this problem and you guys are against it and offer no solution to 
the issue.

It all boils down to laziness. Too lazy to spend the time to add 
code that makes dmd more robust. Simple as that.

It's not that it can't be done, like you bone-heads are claiming, 
but that you simply don't want to do it.

Another very simple solution:

Before the zip file is generated, a listing of all the files in 
the dmd installation that are used(which should be all of them) 
is taken. This file then is parsed by dmd and only those files in 
the dmd dir that are in the list are used. This would also have 
avoided the issue and future issues. Any stale files in the dir 
would simply be ignored.

But, again, too much work. Keep making the end users deal with 
these problems instead of doing your due diligence. That we, we 
have something to waste our time with in these forums instead of 
real problems.