Unofficial DVM Windows Beta

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-05 09:39, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrej Mitrovic"<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.628.1307208393.14074.digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com...
>>
>> Btw, is there a shortcut for getting the latest DMD release? E.g.
>> something like:
>> dvm install 2.x, for the latest 2.x release?
>>
>
> There currently isn't, but that's a very good idea. One of the great things
> about DVM is that it's fantastic for first-time D users, but we shouldn't
> expect such newbies to know what version they want or what the latest
> version is.
>
> Just brainstorming here: I think the best way to handle this would involve
> somehow finding out the latest version from digitalmars.com. It definitely
> wouldn't be good if a DVM developer needed to manually update something
> every time Walter issues a release. But we also wouldn't want to try to
> force another TODO onto Walter's plate whenever he pushes a DMD update. DVM
> could try different download URLs and see which is the highest version
> number that doesn't 404, but that's obviously an ugly resource-intensive
> kludge.
>
> The best thing I can think of right now would be to download the changelog
> page on digitalmars.com and scrape that to find the latest version. Maybe we
> could have some web server automatically do it at regular intervals (twice
> daily?) and provide a simple "latest-dmd2" and "latest-dmd1" URL which would
> just return the right version number.
>
> Jacob: Your thoughts?

I have previously asked about a symlink on the digitalmars ftp to point 
to the latest release. That didn't happen, but I got a reply with a 
shell script finding the latest release. Here's the thread:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Symlink_to_Latest_dmd_on_the_Digital_Mars_FTP_126791.html

I guess this can be ported to D and incorporated with DVM.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg