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[bearophile]

Jonathan M Davis:

>It increases the size of the zip file unnecessarily for the majority of users, and anyone using anything other than Windows definitely won't need it.<

This is a silly argument. Have you seen the size of the binary distributions of Python, Java, DotNet? The Haskell installer is 93.6 MB. Java jdk-7-ea-bin is about 100 MB. The DMD zip is very far from there. If this is not acceptable for you still, I see solutions like distribuiting zip with library binaries too and a bare-bones zip for you. Is this good enough for you?


>So yes, we need to make it easy for people to find the appropriate binaries for Windows, but no, we shouldn't distribute them with dmd.<

Downloading files from the net is a common task for even short programs. To lower the entry barrier for D newbies you don't want them to download (or compile) libs.

Bye,
bearophile