On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 00:00:02 UTC, starcanopy wrote:
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:48:33 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
[...]
Not saying Kinke SHOULD do it. Was rather disagreeing with
the idea that "developers" don't use installers. And that's a
shortcoming with the LDC project...no straightforward way to
set it up on Windows using an installer. If visuald supports
LDC, why not point people to it.
[...]
I agree with this. Not providing an installer gives the
message that you're not that interested in people using it.
That's an exaggeration. Every release is accompanied by
binaries that one may easily retrieve. Setting up the
dependencies is only done once, and if you're a Windows
developer, such an environment most likely exists, and you'll
likely only have to add the bin to your path. It's my
understanding that there are few people regularly working on
LDC; allocating (voluntary!) manpower to a nice but
non-essential component doesn't seem wise.
You underestimate how spoiled windows developer are. Even these
simple step are completely out of character for most software on
the platform. 20 years ago it wasn't a problem, now on Windows 10
it's a whole other story. How many clicks to get the dialog to
set PATH? On NT4 it was 2 clicks, now on Windows 10 I still
haven't figured out how to do it without searching like a madman.
To make it short. The Windows platform is getting more and more
hostile to manual tuning.
