digitalmars.D - Re: Dear Mr. Bright
- Lester L. Martin II <Sarah ewam-associates.com> Sep 30 2007
- "Janice Caron" <caron800 googlemail.com> Sep 30 2007
- Lester L. Martin II <Sarah ewam-associates.com> Sep 30 2007
- Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> Sep 30 2007
- Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> Sep 30 2007
- "Janice Caron" <caron800 googlemail.com> Sep 30 2007
Ok, I'll change it to tango installtion and phobos instalation respectively; does that sound better Janice Caron Wrote:On 9/30/07, Lester L. Martin II <Sarah ewam-associates.com> wrote:Basic install installs dmd and phobos. Full install installs dmd and tango and dsss. Tango and Phobos can not be used together in windows without a little batch script.
I know. That's exactly the point I was making. Phobos is officially part of D, so you can't call it "full" if Phobos doesn't work out of the box. Tango is an unofficial third party extension. You just can't go around saying it's part of a "full install" of D. Don't get me wrong. I think you're installer is a great idea! It's just the labelling I'm concerned about. Why not make a standard D installer, and then a separate Tango installer. Nobody would have a problem with that.
Sep 30 2007
On 9/30/07, Lester L. Martin II <Sarah ewam-associates.com> wrote:Ok, I'll change it to tango installtion and phobos instalation respectively; does that sound better
Oh yes. That's cool. That's superb. Excellent! :-)
Sep 30 2007
Thank you Janice for your help. When you told me how it would confuse newbies it made me look back and think and I figured you were right. Without your help I could have turned many people away from D. With your help I was able to make it even more newbie friendly than before. Lester L. Martin II Janice Caron Wrote:On 9/30/07, Lester L. Martin II <Sarah ewam-associates.com> wrote:Ok, I'll change it to tango installtion and phobos instalation respectively; does that sound better
Oh yes. That's cool. That's superb. Excellent! :-)
Sep 30 2007
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:31:17 +0100, Janice Caron wrote:On 9/30/07, Lester L. Martin II <Sarah ewam-associates.com> wrote:Ok, I'll change it to tango installtion and phobos instalation respectively; does that sound better
Oh yes. That's cool. That's superb. Excellent! :-)
But why would a newbie intuitively know that 'phobos' is the standard library and 'tango' is a third-party library the precludes the standard library? -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia skype: derek.j.parnell
Sep 30 2007
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:10:12 +0100, Janice Caron wrote:On 9/30/07, Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> wrote:But why would a newbie intuitively know that 'phobos' is the standard library and 'tango' is a third-party library the precludes the standard library?
I imagine that, as with other Windows installers, the assumption is that anyone who clicks on "Custom Install" and hand-picks what they want, isn't a newbie.
Huh? Who's talking 'custom'? I certainly wasn't. Originally it was ... "standard" ==> phobos "full" ==> tango now its changed to ... "phobos" ==> phobos "tango" ==> tango And while the names are now exactly what it does, it doesn't help people who do not know that 'phobos' is the standard and 'tango' is not the standard. I would have suggested ... "standard" ==> phobos "alternative" ==> tango -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia skype: derek.j.parnell
Sep 30 2007
On 9/30/07, Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> wrote:But why would a newbie intuitively know that 'phobos' is the standard library and 'tango' is a third-party library the precludes the standard library?
I imagine that, as with other Windows installers, the assumption is that anyone who clicks on "Custom Install" and hand-picks what they want, isn't a newbie.
Sep 30 2007