On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 19:57:52 UTC, JohnnyK wrote:
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 19:37:08 UTC, JohnnyK wrote:
Another thing about GitHub's Download Zip button and this
process as a whole. While the Download Zip button does allow
you to download the master folders with recursive directories I
do find it somewhat cumbersome or should I say awkward since
you have to extract these in their correct locations upon
download. This is not good when you are trying to follow
someones instructions on how to download, build, and install
their wares. I just don't get git? Just compile the code and
put a binary up there for people to use. If I want to
contribute to the code base then I will I guess go through all
this hassle but for those of us not smart enough to contribute
and just want to use it show me the binary please. In the
amount of time it is taking to get this stuff I could have made
major strides at building my own. Also I don't know what this
fragmented downloading is going to do in the future when I want
an updated version of the software. Please remember many of us
are simpletons and don't use all these fancy version control
systems and just need the binary so that we can use it. I
guess you could say we are your customers and not your
contributors. Please everyone in the D community try and
follow the KISS methodology and if you do I bet you could get
many more users of your wares and not people banging their
heads until they give up. Yeah I was only 2 clicks away from
giving up on this whole D thing thinking it was just too darned
hard to make it worth my while. Who knows I still may give up
since I have not attempted to compile it yet. I think I will
wait until tomorrow before I try to tackle that part of the
destruction's. For now I think I have it downloaded. BTW did
I mention that I really hate git and compiling other people's
code just to use an edit box and button on a dialog???
Ar you talking about D specifically? You *can* just download the
package you know:
http://dlang.org/download.html
I'm actually wondering how you even reached git?
