DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 4 September 2014 at 18:24:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2014-09-04 10:40, Chris wrote:
>
>> Weird, I did try the zero at the end (as described on the 
>> homepage*),
>> yet I got an error. Maybe I typed a comma instead of a "." 
>> without
>> realizing it. However, I'm almost sure I didn't type the zero 
>> when
>> installing 2.066 and I got the right version.
>
> DVM just takes the argument you give it, in this case 2.066. 
> Then it prepends "dmd." and appends ".zip" forming something 
> like this:
>
> dmd.2.066.zip
>
> Then it prepends "ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/" to that filename. 
> If there is a file matching that name in the Digital Mars FTP 
> it will work. As you can see, there is no file named 
> "dmd.2.066.zip", so you must have used "2.066.0".

Chances are I did, yeah. It's hard to remember later what I typed 
exactly once the shell is closed. Would there be a way to 
download the latest version by default, if the user types 
"install 2.066" or just "install [dmd]"? If there isn't, what 
could be done on the dmd side of things to facilitate this? DVM 
is a pretty handy tool, but it still has some rough edges. I 
think it could one day be part of a D Development Framework 
(DDF). Please keep it up.

>> If you've seen this mistake several times, maybe it would be 
>> good to
>> point it out under "Usage". And maybe having/trying more than 
>> one mirror
>> would be good too, if it makes sense for DVM.
>
> There is no mirror, as far as I know.