Still cannot build Phobos from git

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:j0oktj$167g$2 at digitalmars.com...
> On 2011-07-27 10:02, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> Plan is that it'll just grab the latest of each. AFAIK, I think that's 
>> how
>> work in the...umm..."trunk"...of DMD/druntime/phobos is normally done.
>>
>> Every time I've done it manually (ie, just a few times) it's worked out 
>> ok.
>> I think DMD, druntime, and phobos are all stable enough that they 
>> wouldn't
>> normally break each other unless a bad changeset gets committed or your
>> versions get too out-of-sync with each other.
>
> As long as it works. When implementing it, just a suggestion: don't pull 
> in a git library or similar, just download the zip archive containing the 
> latest sources from github.
>

I was going to go through tango.sys.Process to use the cmdline git to grab 
it. Is there a way to just download a zip from github without going through 
git? That would be better, since it wouldn't require the user have git 
installed, but I don't know of a way to do that.