Still cannot build Phobos from git

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Jul 27 02:14:27 PDT 2011


On 2011-07-27 10:02, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:j0ocfk$dfm$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> How is that going to work? As far as I know there is no reliable way
>> telling if a given commit of Phobos works with a given commit of druntime
>> or DMD.
>>
>> If you get it to work I'll include it.
>>
>
> Plan is that it'll just grab the latest of each. AFAIK, I think that's how
> work in the...umm..."trunk"...of DMD/druntime/phobos is normally done.
>
> Every time I've done it manually (ie, just a few times) it's worked out ok.
> I think DMD, druntime, and phobos are all stable enough that they wouldn't
> normally break each other unless a bad changeset gets committed or your
> versions get too out-of-sync with each other.

As long as it works. When implementing it, just a suggestion: don't pull 
in a git library or similar, just download the zip archive containing 
the latest sources from github.

> Andre, Walter, Don and the other big committers probably have a better idea
> of how this usually goes, though...

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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