• Martin d Anjou (3/3) Feb 04 2007 Why no version number in filename dmd.zip?
• Bill Baxter (13/17) Feb 04 2007 I like it the way it is because it means you can just do an "unzip here"...

Martin d Anjou <point14 magma.ca> writes:

Why no version number in filename dmd.zip?
Why always unzip to dmd/ instead of to dmd-1.004 and so on?

Martin

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Martin d Anjou wrote:
 Why no version number in filename dmd.zip?
 Why always unzip to dmd/ instead of to dmd-1.004 and so on?
 
 Martin

I like it the way it is because it means you can just do an "unzip here" 
  to upgrade.  New releases of DMD come out quite often, but generally 
there's not much reason to keep the previous version around. 
Regressions are few and juicy fixes and new features are many.  If the 
new version happens to break something, reverting to the older version 
is also as easy as "unzip here".

Of course that assumes you keep your dmd zips in the same directory 
where you have your dm and dmd folders.  For a lot of folks, apparently 
that's c:\, but I keep all such things in c:\usr\pkg subdirectory 
because I can't stand having bunches of folders and files cluttering up 
the root directory.

--bb