On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
> "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. > > > It isn't working for me at the moment, but try https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/zipball/master<https://nodeload.github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/tarball/master> This is from the Downloads button on a respository, and it gets you the latest revision in a zip file.
