Nightly Builds and Better Download Package

[Brad Roberts]

On 5/23/13 1:50 PM, nazriel wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 20:45:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/23/2013 10:39 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 17:32:42 UTC, nazriel wrote:
>>>> 1) Are there any plans in introducing Nightly Builds of DMD-master?
>>>
>>> The process of making the release zips isn't even open source.
>>> Probably because
>>> it includes a bunch of closed-source software. Still kind of ridiculous.
>>>
>>
>
>> No, it isn't closed source any more than "zip" is closed source.
>
> Back to the main topic.
>
> Walter is there any way we could help with improving packaging?
>
> I guess for the first one the fastest way will be to make pull request
> for pull-tester and make consultation with bradd.
>
> But AFAIK second one depends mostly on you.
> It's really pain to download 20MB each time I need to install DMD... 5MB
> would be the max package size if we split OS versions.
>
> And yeah, I move alot so downloading 20MB takes some time with my UMTS
> modem :)

Ignore the auto-tester.. it's a non-issue until there's make targets 
that do the job.  Having it run make install a few times and uploading 
the results somewhere are easy.