Need 'Home Brew' D support for macOS

aliak something at something.com
Wed Nov 7 23:01:58 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 at 13:14:17 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 at 06:35:53 UTC, Joel wrote:
>> I think 'Home Brew' is a good way to go for using with D in 
>> macOS - just put 'brew upgrade dmd' in the terminal, and bobs 
>> your uncle. One guy was updating it a while ago, but seems to 
>> have stopped doing so. I did a post in learn forum about it 
>> [1].
>>
>> Without these updates, I'm starting to loose interest in D, 
>> and I've been using D since back in D1 days. Two of the main 
>> programs I use every day are D programs that I made.
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/meunnxaljurvhufmsvzx@forum.dlang.org
>
> I'm a bit confused by the dichotomy between "I've used this for 
> ages, like and rely on it" and "A minor delay in updates in my 
> chosen package manager is making me lose interest", but 
> whatever, it's up to date now, `brew upgrade dmd` should get 
> you to 2.083.0

And for next time if anyone wants to fork homebrew and make the 
necessary changes, here's a quick script to help out:

https://gist.github.com/aliak00/bc878cf9e24be75776c55d60e8758f38

I *think* that should work as long as formats stay the same...

Cheers,
- Ali


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