Still cannot build Phobos from git

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-31 22:26, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:j139bn$13bj$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2011-07-31 11:31, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>> I was going to go through tango.sys.Process to use the cmdline git to
>>> grab
>>> it. Is there a way to just download a zip from github without going
>>> through
>>> git? That would be better, since it wouldn't require the user have git
>>> installed, but I don't know of a way to do that.
>>
>> You see the big "Downloads" button on every github project? Click on that,
>> there you can get a link to a zip file containing the sources, URL for
>> Phobos: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/zipball/master
>>
>
> I'd already tried the "Downloads" button, but it only gives me the releases.
> The, umm..."trunk"/head/master/whatever isn't listed there.

If I click the "Downloads" button I get a popup window with "Download 
source" and "Download packages". "Download source" is the current head, 
"Download packages" contains tags. BTW, I'm pretty sure it requires 
javascript to get the popup.

> But, https://github.com/{user}/{repo}/zipball/master does seem to work, so
> thanks, I'll use that.

Ok, good.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg