updatesh.d now ready for download ;)

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 18:46:05 UTC, Benjamin Thaut 
wrote:
> Am 28.01.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> On 1/28/15 9:01 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 16:18:18 UTC, Andrei 
>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> We have a really nice script:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/blob/master/update.sh
>>>>
>>>
>>> And once again this only works for linux...
>>
>> OSX too. What would be a good approach for Windows?
>>
>>> DMDs test framework is also a hell to use on Windows. It 
>>> takes 5 times
>>> as long to run on Windows compared to linux.
>>
>> Interesting. Why would that be?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
> Because its a .sh script and windows sucks for starting tons of 
> processes. (What a .sh script basically is)
> It would be great if the entire dmd testing process would be 
> driven by a executable written in D.
>
> 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).


Now the update.sh can be a D program.  Ported it.  Might need 
some tweaking before it works on Windows or OS X, and I do not 
claim it is pretty.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/158


Laeeth.