On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 17:48:50 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 16:43:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I use the installer just so I don't have to configure the VS
paths, but I tell it not to modify the PATH variable.
Wow, if it has that option, that's cool.
It has for many releases now. There seems to be some out of date
information people have about what the installer does. Here's
some of the changes me and others have made over the years.
- Setting the PATH is optional.
- The installer detects and sets the paths to all the necessary
Visual C++ stuff in sc.ini.
- The installer provides two shortcuts to command prompts
configured with DMD and the necessary Visual Studio paths set up,
one for a 32-bit environment and one for a 64-bit environment
(just like Visual C++ does). I added this just for people who
don't like having their PATH changed but still wanted something
that worked out of the box.
- It no longer downloads the zip file and unpacks it, unix stuff
and all, into the installation directory. Only the windows
specific portion is included and it is embedded inside the
installer.
- If it can't detect Visual C++ it offers to download the latest
Community Edition for you.
- It can download and install Visual D.
- It warns before uninstalling your old version (in case you've
customized your DMD in some way).
- OMF format libcurl is included now.
- It won't nuke the PATH environment variable due to a bug that
was in NSIS (this was my first contribution to D years ago).
