update.sh

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Jan 16 01:05:27 PST 2012


On 2012-01-16 10:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-01-16 08:57, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/16/12 1:18 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2012-01-16 06:20, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>>>> news:jevr6q$8vp$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>> I just added a handy script, tools/update.sh.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/commit/cc4e3c07c2ebb19dbb90c2d29c828f5fb714e605
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's useful for people who work on dmd and want to either download
>>>>> anew or
>>>>> freshen their repositories.
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments and ideas are welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Soo...you made a tool to do what DVM already does? ;)
>>>
>>> And only works on Posix.
>>
>> It's a simple 200 lines script that does something that someone working
>> on dmd etc. needs. I just looked over DVM (on
>> https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home). It's a large program, has a
>> large list of dependencies, is largely undocumented (I'm unclear even to
>> what extent it does what I need), it seems to do a ton of stuff I don't
>> need, and there's no way it could be justified for inclusion in tools/.
>> It's great that DVM exists for people who need it, but I don't see a
>> competition between it and update.sh.
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>>
>
> A large list of dependencies?? The only runtime dependency is zlib.
>

And this is on Posix (which basally always have it installed by 
default). On Windows it's statically linked.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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