On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 13:43:14 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
I'm not suggesting that this fills the need of newbies, but there is this: https://dlang.org/install.html.
Nobody should ever follow those terrible instructions, they leave you so fragile in the event of future updates, takes superuser install access, and just generally scatters crap.
If anything that page should be marked like "FOR PACKAGE MAINTAINERS ONLY" (even then I wouldn't do it that way but at least that's a kinda valid use case) since no end user should ever mess with that.
Just unzip it in place. Maybe add it to your PATH if that's your thing. But don't go scattering files, you'll regret it when it comes update time.
