DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:18:50 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:10:28 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>> On 03/09/14 11:08, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> If I install dmd 2.066 with dvm, it won't overwrite or change 
>>> anything?
>>
>> No, the whole idea is to have multiple compilers installed 
>> simultaneous.
>>
>>> I'll soon be moving my code from 2.065 to 2.066, but I want 
>>> to keep
>>> 2.065 around for a while to maintain existing code till the 
>>> transition
>>> is complete.
>>
>> Yes, that's the whole idea.
>>
>>> And how do I integrate it with dub?
>>
>> It doesn't have a direct integration with Dub. But that's the 
>> other part of the idea. Just run "dvm use <compiler_version>" 
>> to set the version you want to use. When Dub runs DMD it will 
>> use the one you chose earlier. It works with any tool invoking 
>> DMD in the same session as you run "dvm use".
>
> Thanks. I thought so, I just wanted to be 100% sure it really 
> works this way, before doing anything. Hit-and-miss can cause 
> some serious headaches when dealing with different dmd 
> compilers.
>
> Thanks also for the great tool. This will make the transition a 
> lot easier.
>
>> This all works on the command line. If you have some form of 
>> IDE chose the location where DVM installs the compilers. On 
>> Posix this will be ~/.dvm and on Windows this will be 
>> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\dvm. Then either pick any 
>> of the following:
>>
>> * <path_to_dvm>/bin/dmd-<version> - for a specific compiler 
>> version
>>
>> * <path_to_dvm>/bin/dvm-current-dc - the compiler you chose 
>> last time with "dvm use <version>"
>>
>> * <path_to_dvm>/bin/dvm-default-dc - the default compiler, set 
>> with "dvm use <version> -d"

Methinks DVM doesn't get it right. 2.065.zip is available here:

ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.0.zip

(cf. 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ebvumaoniuukgjbowxbz@forum.dlang.org)

But DVM tries to access it via http:

Fetching: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.zip
An unknown error occurred:
tango.core.Exception.IOException@/home/doob/development/d/tango/tango/core/Exception.d(59): 
The resource with URL "http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.zip" 
could not be found.