Still cannot build Phobos from git

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Jul 31 03:04:39 PDT 2011


On 2011-07-31 11:31, Nick Sabalausky 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.

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

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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