On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 14:13:16 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
I know the all-platform .zip files are wasteful, but any
practical reason for removing them? Unless the hosting cost is
not negligible, breaking existing tools/scripts may not be
worth it.
Sorry that you missed that, it's been decided and discussed
several times since half a year ago that we want to get rid of
the huge useless downloads, even more so since we're releasing
much more often. Any user of your tools will be thankful for a
much quicker download as well.
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mp2ou8$1qrf$1...@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/55d9df2a.8090...@dawg.eu
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/commit/5a2ed94953c007b1bc374f46073a60bda53635d1
