Who knows about https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/blob/master/update.sh?

Piotrek via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 28 12:37:17 PST 2015


On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 18:59:24 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/28/15 10:54 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> Am 28.01.2015 um 19:52 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>> On 1/28/15 10:46 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>>>> Same goes for the update.sh, why can't it be a D program? 
>>>> (Requiering
>>>> that Git is in the PATH or maybe searching some standard 
>>>> locations).
>>>
>>> Presumably because D is not yet available. -- Andrei
>>
>> I think its safe to assume, that everyone who wants to start
>> contributing to D has at least some D compiler installed 
>> before actually
>> hacking druntime / phobos or dmd.
>
> Ionno, I very much like the "I have nothing installed and I 
> want to get my hands dirty". -- Andrei

Installing DMD is almost noop. OTOH, handling sh scripts is an 
oder of magnitude bigger problem (my subjective opinion).

Piotrek


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