Remember when make -f posix.mak just worked for dmd from zip?

[ketmar]

Seb wrote:

> Out of interest: Why would you compile the compiler from the release 
> sources? After all, it's the binary release bundle and not the 
> development build. Also there are tools like digger that automate 
> everything for you...
>
> I understand that sometimes it can be nice to do that, but imho you are 
> making a big deal out of this, while it's not really one in practice as 
> you can simply fetch the source from GitHub.
> Also there is no CI for the release builds and there's only one person 
> who can build them (Martin) as it requires virtual machines for all 
> supported OSes. Martin does an amazing job, but there's only so much one 
> person can do...

every sentence in this answer is perfect. and the whole thing perfectly 
illustrates the reasons for my hardfork.