On Friday, 18 June 2021 at 06:14:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Monday, 7 June 2021 at 08:51:52 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
I am having issues as well, but I don't think the installer is
at fault: I see the `C:\D\dmd2` directory get filled as the
installer progresses, then files just disappear. It doesn't
seem to be consistent though. After failure I tried with
`dmd-2.096.1.exe` and the same thing happened, whereas it had
installed fine before. I tried `dmd-2.097.0.exe` and this time
the whole directory got wiped. I tried again and it installed
fine.
Windows 10 Pro N version 20H2 build 19042.985.
I suspect MS cloud security scan.
-- Bastiaan.
Maybe we could recruit someone to replace the dated NSIS
installer with a native msi installer.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15375
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software#Windows
Don't have much of a clue about Windows nowadays, maybe there
are more suitable alternatives.
Speaking with my Windwos dev hat on, the suitable alternative
would be to use MSIX package files, the replacement for MSI
files, that date back to Windows 2000.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/packaging-tool/tool-overview
In what concerns typical Windows development workflows, its use
is quite simple for basic use cases, namely add a MSIX project to
solution, configure the manifest file and add as dependencies the
.NET and C++ projects whose binaries are going to be part of MSIX.
With something like D I expect a bit more convoluted process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/desktop-to-uwp-third-party-installer
