Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Wed Sep 11 15:52:33 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 20:27:57 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 11.09.2013 18:06, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 06:31:50 UTC, Rainer 
>> Schuetze wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Ok, that should be fine, too. Does the Installer store the path 
> to the installed DMD somewhere, so that it doesn't need to be 
> entered again in the Visual D installer?

In the registry, yeah. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\D\Install_Dir


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