Descent 0.5.4 released

[Extrawurst]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
> and debugging code in D.
> 
> Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
> 
> New features:
>  - Compile-time view (Window -> Show View -> Other -> D -> Compile-time 
> View): allows you to see things from the compiler point of view, which 
> applies some transformations to the source code. For example you can see 
> what happens when you do a foreach, when you invoke an "extension 
> method", when you do operator overloading; know what type has an auto 
> variable; how struct fields are accessed?; compiler optimizations. It 
> also removes conditionals that evaluate to false, and shows the results 
> of mixins in-place. As always, this is far from perfect and a lot of 
> things can be improved. For the lazies, I'll later upload a video about 
> this. :-)
>  - Now hovering over a mixin (over the "mixin" keyword) shows it's 
> result in a popup.
>  - Now hovering over a function or template instance with ctrl+shift 
> shows it's compile-time result (with shift only: it's source code).
>  - Added code templates for operator overloading, so that you don't have 
> to remember all those names. Try them by typing "op" and pressing 
> ctrl+space.
>  - Fixed ticket #160: new completion proposals: "classinfo" and "outer" 
> (when available) are shown for classes. "ptr" and "funcptr" are shown 
> for delegates.
> 
> Please note that most of these features are experimental. (the 
> compile-time view is mostly useful to experiment with small cases to see 
> what the compiler is doing, like for example if you write "auto x = [1, 
> 2, 3];", to see what type the compiler gives to x)
> 
> I also fixed the problem with the last version: I accidentally 
> introduced a dependency with JDT and that was causing the problems most 
> of you had, so in this version this dependency was removed and updating 
> should work as usual.
> 
> Any suggestion, critic or bug report is welcome. You can use:
> - the forums: http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=107
> - trac: http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/report?action=new
> - irc: at freenode, #d.descent
> 
> Enjoy!

Since the version 0.5.4.20090129 is available through the update manager 
  updating fails with:

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
   Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,descent.ui,0.5.4.20090127.
     Exception connecting to 
http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar.
 
http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar
     Exception connecting to 
http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar.
 
http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/update-site/plugins/descent.ui_0.5.4.20090127.jar