On 27-Jul-12 13:30, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
It's easy to download it, but integrating it into your system can go
pretty badly wrong.
For example, if you end up with gnu make installed, you need to make
sure it never
gets called instead of Windows make.
Windows has make?
Yes, you know world is round and every compiler vendor has its own make.
Oh the fun you can have if you end up with both MinGW and Cygwin installed...
I have had both installed for years without trouble. I mostly use the
former as development environment and the latter as general POSIX
environment (think SSH and other such utilities).
Windows still has nearly 90% market share. it's not acceptable to
treat it as a second class citizen, especially on something as trivial
as this.
So... we should write batch 'scripts' to treat it as first class? I
won't stop you, but err... ;)
batch scripts are an abomination indeed :)
But the answer is to make a _tool_ . Did anyone expected that rdmd
should be a shell script? I don't think so.
Did anyone had problem with it that it doesn't compile where D compiler
is not available?
Seriously, we want to remove every possible to barrier to participation.
MinGW and Cygwin are "barriers"? Really? They're extremely trivial to
install, especially Cygwin...
I hope you are joking. Last time I checked Cygwin even didn't have
proper uninstaller leaving me removing it by hand from PATH and whatnot.
--
Dmitry Olshansky
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