updatesh.d now ready for download ;)

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 8 February 2015 at 10:58:40 UTC, Baz wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 08:05:28 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 18:46:05 UTC, Benjamin Thaut 
>> wrote:
>>> Am 28.01.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>>> On 1/28/15 9:01 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 16:18:18 UTC, Andrei 
>>>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>> We have a really nice script:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/blob/master/update.sh
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And once again this only works for linux...
>>>>
>>>> OSX too. What would be a good approach for Windows?
>>>>
>>>>> DMDs test framework is also a hell to use on Windows. It 
>>>>> takes 5 times
>>>>> as long to run on Windows compared to linux.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting. Why would that be?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>>
>>>
>>> Because its a .sh script and windows sucks for starting tons 
>>> of processes. (What a .sh script basically is)
>>> It would be great if the entire dmd testing process would be 
>>> driven by a executable written in D.
>>>
>>> Same goes for the update.sh, why can't it be a D program? 
>>> (Requiering that Git is in the PATH or maybe searching some 
>>> standard locations).
>>
>>
>> Now the update.sh can be a D program.  Ported it.  Might need 
>> some tweaking before it works on Windows or OS X, and I do not 
>> claim it is pretty.
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/158
>>
>>
>> Laeeth.
>
> It has been a source of inspiration to write a D script 
> designed to build DMD-head for win32, though it'd need 
> improvment:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD#Using_a_D_script
>
> - it clones or pulls dmd/runtime/phobos
> - it builds dmd/runtime/phobos
>
> with a few tweaking it could be cross-platform.

Nice.  I will give it a go on linux when time (I know I would 
need to tweak).