[dmd-beta] D 1.075 and 2.060 betas

[David Simcha]

The more I think about it the more I think we need a tool for automatically
checking out and building the latest releases of DMD/druntime/Phobos that's:

1.  Easy to use.

2.  Well-documented.

3.  Cross-platform.

4.  Configurability/not hard-coding everything.

I don't know how many times I've put off creating pull requests for
relatively minor improvements to Phobos because of the hassle of either
writing such a tool myself (I've written a quick/dirty/ad-hoc one just for
myself but it really sucks in almost all attributes mentioned) or manually
updating everything before I could get started.

Given that Walter apparently has a tool that's most of the way there, it
would be great if he released it.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>wrote:

> On 7/24/12 1:36 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Looks like my install script broke
>>
>
> Please let's put that on github in installer, like, right now. If you did
> it yesterday, it would've been too late. If you have any paths that are
> specific to your networking configuration, hoist them into variables and
> invoke the script with arguments.
>
> We should grow a very strong aversion for any process seat-of-the-pants,
> "in my ~/bin/", "ah I use my history", that influences the way we deliver
> software.
>
> We want one million users. To do so, we need to be ready for one million
> users.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei
>
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