On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 06:31:50 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

On 10.09.2013 20:03, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

On 9/10/13 9:31 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:

On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 19:05:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

Recent threads here have made it pretty clear that VisualD is a
critical piece of D infrastructure. (VisualD integrated D usage into
Microsoft Visual Studio.)

Andrei, myself and Rainer (VisualD's champion) are all in agreement on
this.

What do you think?

Since it's official I think it'd be nice to add to the Windows
Installer.  I'll get started adding it if you or Andrei give me the go
ahead.

Yes please. Make it an opt-out choice.

Alternatively, I could add dmd to the Visual D installer. If the files are actually inside the package, I guess it is a bit easier this way because the Visual D installer does quite a bit of registration and patching.

But both installers use NSIS, so it shouldn't be a big deal to merge them either way.

Once dub is a bit more mature I think it too should be added to the
installer.

That should probably be in all installers.


Andrei

I was just going to have the DMD installer download Visual-D's installer and run it.  Seemed like the easiest approach.  This would make it so Visual-D's releases aren't tied to DMD's and people could upgrade Visual-D independently if a new release comes out.  Every release of DMD we'd just update the Visual-D installer URL to match the current release.