On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 03:07:39 UTC, Manu wrote:
So I'm trying to find windows binaries for GDC and LDC...
First place I look is dlang.org/download. Appears to be for
DMD... keep
looking.
I look at the GDC/LDC wiki pages. No links to binaries anywhere.
GDC and LDC home pages... no links to binaries.
Github doesn't host binaries anymore...
Where are they?
Turns out there are links to the GDC binaries (hosted on
bitbucket) on
dlang.org/download.
...I didn't previously notice they were there, never scrolled
down far
enough. The impression you get from the top of the page is that
dlang.orgis just DMD related, and I quickly dismissed it
previously
_<
Also, where's the Linux (FreeBSD?, Mac OS X?) downloads for GDC?
I get it through my package manager, but it seems there should be
a download for it as well. If not a binary, then at least a
tar.gz...
But there's still no LDC binary there... where is it?
This needs to be fixed. You can argue I'm retarded and
ignorant, but as an
end user, it should take me no more than 5 seconds to find the
download
button.
Agreed. Some may not be as persistent as you...
I suggest, on the front page of dlang.org, there should be a
MASSIVE
button: "DOWNLOAD D COMPILERS", and the download page should be
tweaked to
be more obviously compiler agnostic.
I'm not too sure about this. DMD is the reference compiler, so
people should be using that for learning, then graduate to GDC or
LDC if they need something faster.
D1 and DMC consume an unreasonable amount of realestate, hiding
GDC/LDC
(surely basically nobody is looking for those?), perhaps they
should be
reduced to small test links with the other links down the
bottom of the
page?
This will allow room to present GDC and LDC without scrolling.
+1
Do we really want D1 compilers that easily accessable? I assume
everyone relying on them already has a copy, and even if they
need another, they can click on an "Archive" link or something...
And why is there no LDC binary?
