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

[schweik via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 09:51:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 26 September 2015 at 16:35, schweik via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 05:35:04 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Polish certainly matters a lot.
>>
>>
>> Improving quality is an exponetial problem. After a while to 
>> reach the upper level requires a lot of work for almost none 
>> signifiant value added.
>
> False, the value is indeed subtle, but extremely powerful. I 
> don't necessarily advocate 
> there-were-10_000-QA-testers-banging-at-this-for-years 
> 'perfect', but it has to work reliably, especially the first 
> time, and without manual configuration.

Generally true but here we are talking about setting-up a 
compiler.

Maybe a perfect setup could open the door to more new users but 
those who would gave up in front of the configuration problem 
will give up anyway because of the problems inherent to 
programming. The PATH thing is just a joke compared to the 
mountain a new user has to climb.

I really think that currently there is no problem. Just download 
the zip, unpack it and put the 'dmd\bin' folder to the 
PATH...when a new version is released rename the previous dmd 
folder and unpack the new dmd folder to the same location, and so 
on. It just works.