update.sh

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-01-16 08:57, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/16/12 1:18 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-01-16 06:20, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>>> news:jevr6q$8vp$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> I just added a handy script, tools/update.sh.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/commit/cc4e3c07c2ebb19dbb90c2d29c828f5fb714e605
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's useful for people who work on dmd and want to either download
>>>> anew or
>>>> freshen their repositories.
>>>>
>>>> Comments and ideas are welcome.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Soo...you made a tool to do what DVM already does? ;)
>>
>> And only works on Posix.
>
> It's a simple 200 lines script that does something that someone working
> on dmd etc. needs. I just looked over DVM (on
> https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home). It's a large program, has a
> large list of dependencies, is largely undocumented (I'm unclear even to
> what extent it does what I need), it seems to do a ton of stuff I don't
> need, and there's no way it could be justified for inclusion in tools/.
> It's great that DVM exists for people who need it, but I don't see a
> competition between it and update.sh.
>
> Andrei
>
>

A large list of dependencies?? The only runtime dependency is zlib.

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/Jacob Carlborg