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@erdani.com> wrote:
On 7/24/12 1:36 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Looks like my install script broke
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