DVM - D Version Manager

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:14:06 +0100, Don wrote:

> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message
>> news:ihkvrr$1l02$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> I've created a tool that installs and manages D compilers and
>>> different versions.
>>>
>>> Description:
>>>
>>> DVM allows you to easily download and install D compilers and manage
>>> different versions of the compilers. When you switch D compiler with
>>> the "use" command the compiler will only be available in the current
>>> shell. This allows you to have one version of the compiler in one
>>> shell and another version in another shell. For example, have a D1
>>> version in one shell and a D2 version in another.
>>>
>>> The tool is available at bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm The
>>> wiki contains installation and usage instructions:
>>> https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home
>>>
>>> Platforms: currently only Posix
>>>
>>>
>> Yay! That sounds great!
>> 
>> This is the second thing this week that I'd been intending to do and
>> have been thrilled to be beaten to the punch :)
>> 
>> You can bet I'll take a crack at porting it to
>> windows...uhhh...assuming I can find the time...heh ;)
>> 
>> 
>> 
> FWIW, I just copy all the versions of dmd into olddmd/dmd2051, etc, and
> then use a trivial batch file. (Uses junction from sysinternals to make
> a symlink).
> ---
> @junction c:\dmd c:\olddmd\dmd%1 > nul @if not errorlevel 0 echo don't
> have version %1 ---
> eg, usedmd 2051

Won't the script have to somehow set the import and library paths as 
well, so that DMD finds its corresponding druntime/phobos versions?

-Lars