On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:31:15 -0400 "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 14:21:48 David Simcha wrote: > > The more I think about it the more I think we need a tool for > > automatically checking out and building the latest releases of > > DMD/druntime/Phobos that's: > > > > 1. Easy to use. > > > > 2. Well-documented. > > > > 3. Cross-platform. > > > > 4. Configurability/not hard-coding everything. > > > > I don't know how many times I've put off creating pull requests for > > relatively minor improvements to Phobos because of the hassle of > > either writing such a tool myself (I've written a > > quick/dirty/ad-hoc one just for myself but it really sucks in > > almost all attributes mentioned) or manually updating everything > > before I could get started. > > > > Given that Walter apparently has a tool that's most of the way > > there, it would be great if he released it. > > Doesn't DVM do this? It doesn't package stuff like we need for a > release, but if you need to build a specific version of all 3 repos > (including the latest), DVM should do the job - at least as I > understand it. I've never actually used it. > > https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home > Yes, this is correct. It's the "dvm compile <optional path>" command. It should be able to handle that stuff, other than generate packaged releases. If there's any problems/limitations with it, please file a ticket. _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
