On 8/18/2011 8:16 AM, bearophile wrote:
Jonathan M Davis:
It increases the size of the zip file unnecessarily for the majority of users, and
anyone using anything other than Windows definitely won't need it.<
This is a silly argument. Have you seen the size of the binary distributions of
Python, Java, DotNet? The Haskell installer is 93.6 MB. Java jdk-7-ea-bin is
about 100 MB. The DMD zip is very far from there. If this is not acceptable for
you still, I see solutions like distribuiting zip with library binaries too and
a bare-bones zip for you. Is this good enough for you?
...That and we could get the zip file size back down by using
OS-specific zips. You know what Linux users really don't need? Windows
DMD and Phobos binaries.
