Still cannot build Phobos from git

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>

My instinctual reaction to "pop-ins" (I **HATE**, **HATE**, **HATE** 
pop-ins - they're even *worse* than pop-ups) is to curse, disable JS, and 
reload. The resulting page, allegedly, shows "all" downloads, but the 
non-tag ones are missing from it.

Of course, in this case, I did actually read what was on the pop-in before 
going all Nick on it, but it wasn't remotely clear to me that "Download 
source", "Download .tar.gz" or "Download .zip" really meant "current head" 
(actually, I didn't even suspect that it might have meant that - I didn't 
know what the hell they were referring to and I didn't want to assume.)