This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe Windows installer bug.

http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html

-Martin

On 12/11/15 1:04 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe
> Windows installer bug.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html
>
> -Martin

Oh great, now we need another point release to fix: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15281

On 11/11/2015 01:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> 
> Oh great, now we need another point release to fix: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15281

Seems like that can wait 3 weeks for the officially scheduled point
release (Dec 1st).

On 12/11/15 1:10 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 01:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>
>> Oh great, now we need another point release to fix:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15281
>
> Seems like that can wait 3 weeks for the officially scheduled point
> release (Dec 1st).

This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look especially since this is a major addition for this release.
Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei. Bad bad bad bad situation for us.

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:05:16 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe Windows installer bug.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html
>
> -Martin

People not being able to install DMD on a fresh PC made a near-disaster for me yesterday. Thank you a lot for releasing this so soon!

On 11/11/2015 01:18 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> 
> This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look
> especially since this is a major addition for this release.
> Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei.

Well, test the beta.
Both, the installer bug and the lack of allocator in win*.mak could have
easily been found.

> Bad bad bad bad situation for us.

It's not the end of the world, but a good chance too think about how we
could use nightlies or weeklies to bridge this gap.
From my side it's very simple to build tarballs, and when combined with
an nice install script [¹] should work.
It's more difficult to do the packaging because that relies on sensible
version tags.

[¹]: http://forum.dlang.org/post/n1v541$r99$1@digitalmars.com

On 12/11/15 2:46 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 01:18 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>
>> This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look
>> especially since this is a major addition for this release.
>> Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei.
>
> Well, test the beta.
> Both, the installer bug and the lack of allocator in win*.mak could have
> easily been found.

I actually did, I didn't catch it 1) because most work was on Linux and 2) it was already copied.

>> Bad bad bad bad situation for us.
>
> It's not the end of the world, but a good chance too think about how we
> could use nightlies or weeklies to bridge this gap.
>  From my side it's very simple to build tarballs, and when combined with
> an nice install script [¹] should work.
> It's more difficult to do the packaging because that relies on sensible
> version tags.
>
> [¹]: http://forum.dlang.org/post/n1v541$r99$1@digitalmars.com

Yeah I know, its fairly simple fix, for the end user.
I'm only making a big deal of it, to get the attention that we need to sort out our practices a bit.

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:18:55 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look especially since this is a major addition for this release.
> Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei. Bad bad bad bad situation for us.

Did anyone bother to fix this? The next point release is due soon.

On 11/11/2015 4:04 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe
> Windows installer bug.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html


Thank you, Martin!

On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 20:54:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:18:55 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look especially since this is a major addition for this release.
>> Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei. Bad bad bad bad situation for us.
>
> Did anyone bother to fix this?

Nope.