On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 17:59:42 Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote: > 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.
Well, as I said in my initial response, I have no problem with the installer being signed. I'm just surprised that any programmers would care. - Jonathan M Davis
