Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 06:31:50 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 10.09.2013 20:03, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 9/10/13 9:31 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 19:05:03 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Recent threads here have made it pretty clear that VisualD 
>>>> is a
>>>> critical piece of D infrastructure. (VisualD integrated D 
>>>> usage into
>>>> Microsoft Visual Studio.)
>>>>
>>>> Andrei, myself and Rainer (VisualD's champion) are all in 
>>>> agreement on
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Since it's official I think it'd be nice to add to the Windows
>>> Installer.  I'll get started adding it if you or Andrei give 
>>> me the go
>>> ahead.
>>
>> Yes please. Make it an opt-out choice.
>
> Alternatively, I could add dmd to the Visual D installer. If 
> the files are actually inside the package, I guess it is a bit 
> easier this way because the Visual D installer does quite a bit 
> of registration and patching.
>
> But both installers use NSIS, so it shouldn't be a big deal to 
> merge them either way.
>
>
>>
>>> Once dub is a bit more mature I think it too should be added 
>>> to the
>>> installer.
>>
>> That should probably be in all installers.
>>
>>
>> Andrei

I was just going to have the DMD installer download Visual-D's 
installer and run it.  Seemed like the easiest approach.  This 
would make it so Visual-D's releases aren't tied to DMD's and 
people could upgrade Visual-D independently if a new release 
comes out.  Every release of DMD we'd just update the Visual-D 
installer URL to match the current release.