Mac initial experience

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Saturday, 5 July 2025 at 10:36:05 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:

> 1. Looks like we just need to notarise the .pkg? Probably needs 
> the foundation to setup an Apple Developer account if it 
> doesn't already have one, then it should just be a matter of 
> running some Apple command-line tools as part of deployment.
>
> 2. Really, this should have been hot-fixed once the fix made it 
> to nightly. I understand a new compiler is coming soon, so 
> maybe this won't be a problem for long, but perhaps worth 
> retrospecting on how this managed to stay broken for so long 
> (appears to be a few months now that latest dmd crashes on 
> latest Mac).
>
> 3. I think this has been discussed before, but perhaps we 
> should direct people to ldc2 for now as the main download? Or 
> perhaps just make it clear on the website that dmd is x86_64 
> only for now and provide the alternatives on the homepage.

Maybe nobody is using DMD on Mac? The download page doesn't 
mention anything about any of these problems. At a minimum, I'd 
say there should be a link to the previous release and a note 
about the bug with a link to the LDC download.