On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 09:51:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 26 September 2015 at 16:35, schweik via Digitalmars-d
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 05:35:04 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Polish certainly matters a lot.
Improving quality is an exponetial problem. After a while to
reach the upper level requires a lot of work for almost none
signifiant value added.
False, the value is indeed subtle, but extremely powerful. I
don't necessarily advocate
there-were-10_000-QA-testers-banging-at-this-for-years
'perfect', but it has to work reliably, especially the first
time, and without manual configuration.
Generally true but here we are talking about setting-up a
compiler.
Maybe a perfect setup could open the door to more new users but
those who would gave up in front of the configuration problem
will give up anyway because of the problems inherent to
programming. The PATH thing is just a joke compared to the
mountain a new user has to climb.
I really think that currently there is no problem. Just download
the zip, unpack it and put the 'dmd\bin' folder to the
PATH...when a new version is released rename the previous dmd
folder and unpack the new dmd folder to the same location, and so
on. It just works.
