Re: dmd 2.057 release
On 2012-01-03 20:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Alex Rønne Petersen" 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. 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 No, it's not in a release yet, sorry. But I can make one. I was hoping to make DVM download the source from github automatically but I haven't had time to implement that yet. I've been focused on other projects lately. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: dmd 2.057 release
On 2012-01-04 00:02, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: On 1/3/2012 1:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2012 10:55 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: 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 . 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. As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing builds for download would be ideal. Using a nightly build is not very practical for most users, either, probably the same group. Well there is always the google (and mozilla) route of force-feeding the latest binaries to everyone :) They don't install nightly builds, do they? -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: dmd 2.057 release
Chrome and Firefox both have several different auto updating versions. For Chrome there's stable, beta, dev channel, and canary (which is basically a nightly build). So there are lots of opportunities for bugs to be found by developers before they go live in the stable release channel. --bb Sent from my Android. On Jan 4, 2012 1:43 AM, "Jacob Carlborg" wrote: > On 2012-01-04 00:02, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > >> On 1/3/2012 1:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> >>> On 1/3/2012 10:55 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >>> 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 . > > 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. As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing builds for download would be ideal. >>> >>> Using a nightly build is not very practical for most users, either, >>> probably the same group. >>> >> >> Well there is always the google (and mozilla) route of force-feeding the >> latest binaries to everyone :) >> > > They don't install nightly builds, do they? > > -- > /Jacob Carlborg >
