[dmd-internals] DMD now requires a working D compiler to be build

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Vladimir Panteleev"  wrote in message 
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> A machine-readable version is preferable because then Digger can consult 
> it to know which pre-built DMD version to fetch.

Yes.  Any preference on the name?

> If we had somewhere a machine-readable list of all DMD releases with 
> binaries for major platforms plus release dates, it could use that as 
> well, and just use the latest stable release for the point in time which 
> the source code to be built is from.

Can that be generated from the git tags?