[dmd-beta] D 2.062 beta

[Walter Bright]

On 2/10/2013 12:51 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> On 10.02.2013 21:03, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> On 2/10/2013 11:51 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I agree most of it isn't necessary. I guess it's partly a problem of lacking 
> documentation, but also caused by the "magic" library path settings in link.c, 
> that probably only work with VS2010. It does not work with VS2012 (includes 
> Windows 8 SDK) and probably not with the Windows 7 SDK (includes binaries from 
> VS2008).
>
> My suggestion is trying to make it work out of the box for most installations 
> while removing version specific code from the compiler itself.
>

I can agree with that. I'm not so sure that should go into this release. I also 
suspect we are reinventing JSON files badly with dmd.conf. Maybe dmd.conf should 
be redone as a json file.