Digger 1.0

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 19.09.2014 03:36, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Most notable change since DConf is that on Windows, Digger can now build
> D from source (including x64 versions) without requiring Git or Visual
> Studio to be installed. It achieves this by downloading and locally
> installing (unpacking) all the software it needs.
>
> Windows binaries:
>
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger/releases/tag/1.0
>
> Digger is a tool for working with D's source code and its history. It
> can build D (including older D versions), customize the build with
> pending pull requests or forks, and find the exact pull request which
> introduced a regression (or fixed a bug). It comes together with a web
> interface which makes building D from source trivial even for people new
> to D, Git or the command line.
>
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger

I tried it on Windows and Digger does an amazing job at installing 
dependencies. I think we should recommend it as the first thing to run 
when trying to get your hands on building dmd/phobos.

In case someone starts creating patches: Would it be possible to also 
write a batch file into the repository folder to redo a build of dmd, 
druntime and phobos without checking all the dependencies?

How about running the test suite?