On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 05:14:16 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
If dmd breaks in strange and unpredictable ways IT IS DMD's fault! No exceptions, no matter what you believe, what you say, what lawyer you pay to create a law for you to make you think you are legally correct! You can make any claim you want like: "The end user should install in to a clean dir so that DMD doesn't get confused and load a module that doesn't actually have any implementation" but that's just your opinion. At the end of the day it only makes you and dmd look bad when it doesn't work because of some lame minor issue that could be easily fixed.
But it's not being installed, it's being manually extracted, meaning you can't even have cleanup scripts.
Compare keeping an installation of audio files in mp3 (bird calls), and then getting an upgrade where they are in ogg in a new neat directory hierarchy. There's an installer that properly and cleanly removes the old mp3s before extracting the new files, as well as a bonus archive if you want to unzip it yourself. Manually extracting it onto the old directory puts the oggs next to the mp3s, leaving it with twice the number of original audio files. Meanwhile, the official upgrade path (installer) properly removes the stale ones. You can't reasonably expect your audio player to not list them all there.
