DMD VS2017 Support

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On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 21:08:02 UTC, Jolly James wrote:
> On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 07:28:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 22:47:44 UTC, Jolly James wrote:
>>> On Monday, 1 May 2017 at 18:30:53 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>> Please note that the next dmd installer will also detect 
>>>> VS2017 and setup directories correctly in sc.ini: 
>>>> https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/227
>>>
>>> I really like this philosophy:
>>> "It does not work, a fix is available, but it won't be rolled 
>>> out (for now). Who cares about those who cannot use the 
>>> broken software?"
>>
>> Please don't antagonize volunteer contributors who are 
>> actually creating and improving things. We have a release 
>> process for a reason, we can't ship every single change 
>> immediately. If you require a solution urgently, use a 
>> workaround or build it from source yourself.
>
> My message was neither addressed directly to anybody of the 
> volunteer contributors (I have a huge respect of them and their 
> great work), nor to anyone at the D Foundation directly. I just 
> wanted to critize the whole release cycle stuff itself.
>
> I mean, if for any circumstance, e.g. like the VS2017 thing 
> (which did not suddenly appear from one day to another anyway), 
> the whole software cannot be used without larger fiddling (in 
> this case: setting up NSIS + plugins), it seems quite strange 
> to not simply update the installer, which would be a work for a 
> few minutes - and after that everybody would be happy.
> But to be honest, I don't think that this is a problem of D. 
> More or less, this is something that appears everywhere in the 
> world of open-source. Here it annoys and chases away users, in 
> the corporate sector you could not do so, as this would cause 
> the company's ruin.

We already have nightly builds for all platforms supported by dmd 
[0]. We just need a nightly build of the installer, in addition 
to the 7zip archive for Windows. So I'd say we're already doing 
much better than 1-2 years ago.

[0]: http://nightlies.dlang.org/dmd-master-2017-05-23/