[dmd-beta] D 2.062 beta

[Walter Bright]

On 2/10/2013 11:51 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> On 10.02.2013 20:37, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> On 2/10/2013 10:34 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> On 2/9/13, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> One problem is how to detect the location of the Microsoft linker, the
>>>> MS runtime library and the platform SDK libraries.
>>> I already gave Walter a batch file for 2.061 which can be invoked to
>>> retrieve these paths, but it went completely ignored.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>
>>
>> These things make me nervous - they are complex and when they go wrong
>> it can be baffling. Is it really a problem to have the user simply edit
>> the file to match his system?
>
> If you want to attract newbie programmers, definitely yes. Especially if it 
> isn't explained anywhere.
>
> Doesn't installation descriptions like the one in the wiki ( 
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Installing_DMD_on_64-bit_Windows_7_%28COFF-compatible%29 
> ) make you a lot more nervous? There is so much more that can go wrong right now.

I don't know why Gor felt compelled to make those changes - I don't see why all 
of them are necessary.