What we really should do is encourage everyone to use it straight out of the zip, or use one of the platform-specific installers.

That just works. Trying to "install" it by manually copying files out of the zip into random locations is fraught with difficulty. Frankly, I'd rather just outright delete those instructions than try to fix them. They're way more trouble than they're worth.

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:58:47PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> What we really should do is encourage everyone to use it straight out of the zip, or use one of the platform-specific installers.
> 
> That just works. Trying to "install" it by manually copying files out of the zip into random locations is fraught with difficulty. Frankly, I'd rather just outright delete those instructions than try to fix them. They're way more trouble than they're worth.

+1.


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On Sep 2, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator@gmail.com> wrote:

> What we really should do is encourage everyone to use it straight out of the zip, or use one of the platform-specific installers.

I thought this is what everyone did.  Looking at that page, I think the problem is the "to install a global copy" bit, which should just be deleted.  Installing a global copy is the same as most other apps--you generally want to symlink /usr/local/bin/dmd to where the file actually is, or instead to add the install location to your path.