DMD 2.066.1 is missing in the Digitalmars FTP

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 30 12:47:32 PST 2015


On 1/30/15 12:45 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 1/30/2015 12:39 PM, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 2015-01-30 15:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> That would be nice. -- Andrei
>>
>> I agree. I wouldn't need to screen scrape dlang.org in DVM.
>>
>
> I'd be much more inclined to keep a file called LATEST with the version
> number in it than having to maintain a ton of redirects each time.
>
> (not present yet, but for example)
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/LATEST containing one line:
> 2.066.1
>
> Does require two trips to get the file you want, but less maintenance
> issues.

That's already available by scanning the dmd tags in github. We do that 
in dlang.org/posix.mak:

LATEST:=$(shell cd ${DMD_DIR} && \
   git fetch --tags ${GIT_HOME}/dmd && \
   git tag | grep '^v[0-9][0-9.]*$$' | sed 's/^v//' | sort -nr | head -n 1)


Andrei


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