Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 02/09/14 22:05, eles wrote: Thank you. I see that you provide packages for Debian (albeit they are BIN files). Would it be a huge effort to add DVM to this repository of D?: I have no idea. Linux is not my main platform. I only chose Debian because it's a stable/old system with a high

Recent download statistics

2014-09-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I recently got the access logs for dmd downloads through August (and Sep 1st). They show a sharp increase since July, probably following the Wired coverage and the recent release. This is raw data so it does not correct for failed downloads etc, but I assume it is a good proxy for the actual

Re: Recent download statistics

2014-09-03 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 09:20:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I recently got the access logs for dmd downloads through August (and Sep 1st). [snip] Nice! Will be interesting to see how much the recent increase contributes to sustained activity/growth. Any idea what caused the

String to binary conversion

2014-09-03 Thread clearion via Digitalmars-d-announce
I would like to write binary data to a file for an ancillary hash table operation and then read it back using stream.rawRead(). How would I go about converting a string to binary in D. I would prefer not to use any third party libraries if I can. Thank You

Re: Recent download statistics

2014-09-03 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 09:47:45 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: Any idea what caused the spike in March last year? Dconf 2013?

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/09/14 11:08, Chris wrote: If I install dmd 2.066 with dvm, it won't overwrite or change anything? No, the whole idea is to have multiple compilers installed simultaneous. I'll soon be moving my code from 2.065 to 2.066, but I want to keep 2.065 around for a while to maintain existing

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:10:28 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 03/09/14 11:08, Chris wrote: If I install dmd 2.066 with dvm, it won't overwrite or change anything? No, the whole idea is to have multiple compilers installed simultaneous. I'll soon be moving my code from 2.065 to

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-09-03 Thread Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 07:51:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei hmm, that was my first time ever posting to reddit so maybe that's why. Regardless, when the dconf talks come around I'll

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-09-03 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:34:11 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: @ Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post spotted issues regarding your pretty great book? Packt's website has an errata section somewhere, I can't find it now because they redesigned the site, but a lot of

Re: String to binary conversion

2014-09-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/3/2014 8:32 AM, clearion wrote: I would like to write binary data to a file for an ancillary hash table operation and then read it back using stream.rawRead(). How would I go about converting a string to binary in D. I would prefer not to use any third party libraries if I can. Thank You

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-09-03 Thread Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:38:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:34:11 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: @ Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post spotted issues regarding your pretty great book? Packt's website has an errata section

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:18:50 UTC, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:10:28 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 03/09/14 11:08, Chris wrote: If I install dmd 2.066 with dvm, it won't overwrite or change anything? No, the whole idea is to have multiple compilers

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-03 Thread Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 15:55:47 UTC, Chris wrote: Methinks DVM doesn't get it right. 2.065.zip is available here: ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.0.zip (cf. http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ebvumaoniuukgjbow...@forum.dlang.org) But DVM tries to access it via http: Fetching:

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 19:02:05 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote: On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 15:55:47 UTC, Chris wrote: Methinks DVM doesn't get it right. 2.065.zip is available here: ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.0.zip (cf.

Re: Dutyl - a Vim plugin for running D tools

2014-09-03 Thread Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d-announce
Version 1.1.0 is out now. It provides the :DUjump command for jumping to the declaration of the symbol under the cursor. If DCD is not running, Dscanner will be used instead. You can also give :DUjump the symbol as an argument - in this case it'll always use Dscanner(since DCD only supports

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-03 Thread Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 19:34:26 UTC, Chris wrote: I know, but I thought maybe DVM tries different addresses, if one is not working. Anyway it should be on dlang.org/changelog.html. For what it's worth, if you do dvm install 2.065.0 it will find it. Not sure if DVM should try

Damncheck - a property-based testing library

2014-09-03 Thread George via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hey everyone, As my first take on D after spending around 2 weeks learning it I thought I should write something useful that sort of encompasses everything interesting about D (for me it was the flexibility of working with types and lazy arguments). After looking at dashcheck