Could we use something better than zip for the dmd package?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/21/11 5:52 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 23:48:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/21/11 5:45 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 23:38:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Hmm, can you explain more about hosting the zip files on github?
>>>
>>> 1) Go to a GitHub project
>>> 2) Open the Downloads tab
>>> 3) Click "Choose a new file"
>>> 4) Enter a short description
>>> 5) Click "Start Upload"
>>>
>>> That's all. You can even link directly to GitHub downloads.
>>
>> 1. How do we do that programmatically?
>
> Downloads are programmable with GitHub's API. They have an easy-to-use
> script, too:
>
> https://github.com/github/upload

I got the uploading script, and now I'm trying:

./github_upload test andralex/phobos

where test is a zero-bytes file. The script yields:

ERROR: Target file does not exist

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?


Thanks,

Andrei