DMD Snapshot 0.4.1

[Chris R. Miller]

Jacob Carlborg Wrote:

> Chris R. Miller wrote:
> > It's a little bit of a throwback to be going back to DMD 1.028, but I 
> > figure that having something stable is better than having something 
> > that's up-to-date.  The main reason is to avoid Bug #2064, which was 
> > causing some issues with DWT.
> > 
> > This is a big update, giving a debugger, DDL, and Arclib to the 0.4.x 
> > line.  Also, given that I was having some troubles with DWT's new 3.4m7 
> > line, I opted to hold at revision 212 for DWT in order to give it a 
> > little bit longer to stabilize just a bit more.
> > 
> > DDBI, however, got kicked out because in the changes to the logging 
> > system in Tango caused DDBI to no longer compile.  When that gets fixed 
> > I'll add it right back.  I just didn't want to hold this release any 
> > longer, since there are a lot of good additions here that I wanted to 
> > see with a stable compiler.
> > 
> > For those of you without administrator access to your computer, I also 
> > wrote a small batch file which temporarily changes the path variable for 
> > you, and then starts a command line.  That way you can get away without 
> > having to mangle your path permanently.
> > 
> > I also tried compressing it with 7Zip, so you have the option of having 
> > five fewer megabytes to download if you wish.  Not everyone has 7z, so I 
> > also made a normal zipfile.
> > 
> > As always, feel free to make any suggestions and I'll see what I can do. 
> >  You can download from my site here:
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/6qmhzf
> > 
> > Hope you find it useful!
> > 
> 
> When I try to download the zip file it says "Invalid/empty data or 
> corrupted file"

Just fixed that, thanks for pointing it out.  For some odd reason it didn't copy a file...  that's strange, I'll have to remember to check for that before announcing in the future.

> It would be nice if you put some information about what the package 
> contains on the website with every release, the containing packages and 
> the version of the packages for example.

Yes, I do that normally, however, the software randomly decided to not display that information even when I put it there.  I was far too tired to try and fix that last night, but I just finished doing that, so there should be something there now.