Still cannot build Phobos from git

[Andrew Wiley]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message
> news:j0oktj$167g$2 at digitalmars.com...
> > On 2011-07-27 10:02, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
>
> 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.
>
>
>
It isn't working for me at the moment, but try
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/zipball/master<https://nodeload.github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/tarball/master>
This is from the Downloads button on a respository, and it gets you the
latest revision in a zip file.
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