On 9/25/2015 8:55 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Editing the path variable is one of the most unenjoyable and annoying things to do in windows. start -> settings -> system -> advanced system settings -> environment variables -> PATH -> note the stupid window that appears; a single-line text box created in 1995 (or earlier?), which barely lets you see a single path in a line that's probably a few kb long... whenever you touch it, you know you're likely breaking something on your system that currently works ;) People do it if they have to; in my current case, dev's MUST setup emscripten to build the web frontend, and they proceed to complain about how shit the toolchain experience is, but they are forced to use it regardless... nobody is forced to use D. They must find themselves actively drawn to use D.
You can edit sc.ini instead of PATH, as sc.ini overrides it. Anyhow, I edit the PATH from the path line like: PATH >foo.bat ... edit foo.bat and put SET in front of it... foo
This is my experience over many years now. The toolchain and compiler are now more-or-less sufficiently stable that anyone writing code will have a good experience. I believe it's the little things that matter more than anything in 2015.
Polish certainly matters a lot.
