[dmd-beta] D 1.075 and 2.060 betas

[Brad Roberts]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, David Nadlinger wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> > On 7/24/2012 3:17 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> >> Nevertheless, providing nightly snapshots for users to download would
> >> be really helpful for users who don't want to go through the hassles
> >> of building DMD/druntime/Phobos on their own, but still want to test
> >> new features or check for regressions. Several (most?) high-profile
> >> open source projects do this.
> >
> >
> > Please create a pull request for this!
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not easy to do, as Brad's tester is written in
> a proprietary scripting language?
> 
> David

Bash isn't particularly proprietary.  The web pages are, but that's less 
relevant.

However, I strongly object to propagating the one-big-zip model and really 
wish we had per-platform output.  Let's do THAT and make everyone happier.

Also, I have concerns about the storage and bandwidth costs of shipping 
the build output around.  It's just not practical for pull build, but 
probably is for master builds.

If someone wants to get make targets added to (or fixed to be more 
generically usable) the various repositories to do the packaging, I'm 
all for adding it to the tester, including a test of the resulting 
package to make sure its usable.  NOTE: the install needs to stay under 
the build root, and NOT go to /usr/... or /opt/... or anywhere else.

My 2 cents,
Brad