On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 00:07:43 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
Why do you need to download the zip, just include the files
you need like a regular installer.
The decision to do that predates my interest in D so I'm not
sure why the installer does that. It supports just embedding
the zip but that's never been used to my knowledge. Even better
would be to use NSIS's own archiving (which supports LZMA).
I believe it was because the installer was not an official
package, since you can't distribute DMD without permission it was
opted to just download the zip. Now that it is official, there
shouldn't be any reason other than desire and "that's the way
it's always been."
