"Alex Rønne Petersen" <xtzgzo...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:jdviuj$16e$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 03-01-2012 19:47, Walter Bright wrote: >> On 1/3/2012 6:49 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >>> Perhaps some kind of experimental releases would be better. It could >>> help >>> getting new features out to the community (and thus tested) faster. >> >> We call them betas <g>. >> >> But anyone can pull the latest from github and use it, many do. > > That's not very practical for most users. Some kind of ready-to-download > builds would be much better.
I don't remember if this feature has made it into a formal DVM release yet or not, but it's been in the main DVM master branch for awhile: >git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git >git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git >git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos.git >git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools.git # for RDMD >dvm compile >./dmd/bin32/dmd # or ./dmd/bin64/dmd DMD32 D Compiler v2.0... ...etc... Of course, that completely ignores the results of the auto-tester. > As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing builds for download would > be ideal. > > - Alex