Uninstall deletes user created folders too

[Jesse Phillips]

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 00:07:43 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> Why do you need to download the zip, just include the files 
>> you need like a regular installer.
>
> The decision to do that predates my interest in D so I'm not 
> sure why the installer does that. It supports just embedding 
> the zip but that's never been used to my knowledge. Even better 
> would be to use NSIS's own archiving (which supports LZMA).

I believe it was because the installer was not an official 
package, since you can't distribute DMD without permission it was 
opted to just download the zip. Now that it is official, there 
shouldn't be any reason other than desire and "that's the way 
it's always been."