"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message news:j0oktj$167g$2...@digitalmars.com... > On 2011-07-27 10:02, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> Plan is that it'll just grab the latest of each. AFAIK, I think that's >> how >> work in the...umm..."trunk"...of DMD/druntime/phobos is normally done. >> >> Every time I've done it manually (ie, just a few times) it's worked out >> ok. >> I think DMD, druntime, and phobos are all stable enough that they >> wouldn't >> normally break each other unless a bad changeset gets committed or your >> versions get too out-of-sync with each other. > > As long as it works. When implementing it, just a suggestion: don't pull > in a git library or similar, just download the zip archive containing the > latest sources from github. >
I was going to go through tango.sys.Process to use the cmdline git to grab it. Is there a way to just download a zip from github without going through git? That would be better, since it wouldn't require the user have git installed, but I don't know of a way to do that.