Pathing in the D ecosystem is generally broken (at least on windows)

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On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 12:50:55 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> The complexity of the tradeoff is exactly why experienced 
> windows developers are necessary here. For example: any 
> tradeoffs I designed would likely be very far from 
> pareto-optimal on windows, let alone be a good solution overall.

No, a tradeoff is a tradeoff, one tradeoff is not better than 
another, it depends on priorities, not experience.

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 13:03:47 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Hm, so is the correct approach on Windows to provide separate 
> shell for each application that has console utilities? X_x

If tools conflict, they need a form of isolation. Like... make 
install 3 versions of gcc on your system and make them work.