Unofficial DVM Windows Beta

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:ise6jf$1pfj$1 at digitalmars.com...
> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
> news:isdk4u$t7p$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2011-06-04 12:44, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> I've been working on a fork of Jacob Carlborg's excellent DVM tool (D
>>> Version Manager) to add Windows support. It should now be fully-usable 
>>> on
>>> Windows, with the exception of installing Tango and any post-v0.2.0 
>>> features
>>> (I haven't yet merged in any changes from upstream since I originally 
>>> forked
>>> v0.2.0.) I figure I'll submit a pull request after I've gotten those
>>> features merged in and working.
>>
>> This is great news, I'll merge your changes as soon as you are ready for 
>> a pull request. I'm interested in knowing how the "use" command works. 
>> I've quickly skimmed through your code and noticed some references to the 
>> registry that I suspect has something to do with it. This was the biggest 
>> obstacle for me to implement a Windows version.
>>
>
> Yea, I intended to explain all of that on the wiki down in the "Technical 
> Differences From Linux Version" section, but I couldn't think anymore and 
> needed to go to bed ;) I'll fill that in today.
>

All the technical details you should need to know are up on the Wiki now:
https://bitbucket.org/Abscissa256/dvm/wiki/Home

Let me know if anything's missing or you're unclear on something (or have 
any other questions).