[dmd-beta] D 1.075 and 2.060 betas

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 14:21:48 David Simcha wrote:
> The more I think about it the more I think we need a tool for automatically
> checking out and building the latest releases of DMD/druntime/Phobos that's:
> 
> 1. Easy to use.
> 
> 2. Well-documented.
> 
> 3. Cross-platform.
> 
> 4. Configurability/not hard-coding everything.
> 
> I don't know how many times I've put off creating pull requests for
> relatively minor improvements to Phobos because of the hassle of either
> writing such a tool myself (I've written a quick/dirty/ad-hoc one just for
> myself but it really sucks in almost all attributes mentioned) or manually
> updating everything before I could get started.
> 
> Given that Walter apparently has a tool that's most of the way there, it
> would be great if he released it.

Doesn't DVM do this? It doesn't package stuff like we need for a release, but 
if you need to build a specific version of all 3 repos (including the latest), 
DVM should do the job - at least as I understand it. I've never actually used 
it.

https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home

- Jonathan M Davis