On 6/27/2018 5:34 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 17:26:36 Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I guess people feel nervous about installing allegedly potentially
dangerous software on their corporate workstation.
Honestly, that's exactly the sort of thing that I always ignore. I'd pay
attention if anti-virus software outright said that it found a virus, but
"unrecognized software?" That's exactly the sort of thing that's just going
to get me pissed off at Microsoft for getting in my way. Though honestly,
Microsoft pops up so many useless messages that it becomes easy to miss any
that actually matter, because you have to skip through so many of them all
the time that you stop paying attention to them. So, I'm definitely
surprised to hear about programmers refusing to install something just
because Microsoft doesn't recognize it.
- Jonathan M Davis
It's all about removing resistance and raising the level of
professionalism. D isn't a hobby project and shouldn't act like one.
This is an obvious barrier that's worth removing. In this day and age
of rampant actively dangerous software, it's an obvious improvement to
sign it and make the strong claim that this is produced and vended by
the d foundation and we vouch for it's contents. We already do for some
(all?) of the posix distribution bundles.
