The best way I know to determine the latest DMD release is http://ftp.digitalmars.com/LATEST. I'm not aware that such a file exists for LDC and GDC so I'm currently doing:

string latest(string url) {
    return executeShell("git ls-remote --tags " ~ url ~ " | cut -d 'v' -f 2 | cut -d '-' -f 1 | cut -d '^' -f 1 | uniq | tail -n 1").output.strip;
}

Is there a better way?

Thanks,
Andrew

On 2017-10-16 17:13, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> The best way I know to determine the latest DMD release is http://ftp.digitalmars.com/LATEST. I'm not aware that such a file exists for LDC and GDC so I'm currently doing:
> 
> string latest(string url) {
>      return executeShell("git ls-remote --tags " ~ url ~ " | cut -d 'v' -f 2 | cut -d '-' -f 1 | cut -d '^' -f 1 | uniq | tail -n 1").output.strip;
> }
> 
> Is there a better way?

The official download script [1] is using the following:

dmd - http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/LATEST
dmd beta - http://downloads.dlang.org/pre-releases/LATEST
ldc - https://ldc-developers.github.io/LATEST
ldc beta - https://ldc-developers.github.io/LATEST_BETA
gdc - http://gdcproject.org/downloads/LATEST

[1] https://dlang.org/install.sh

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 18:21:46 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-10-16 17:13, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>> Is there a better way?
>
> The official download script [1] is using the following:

You're a godsend. Thank you very much.

On 2017-10-16 20:32, Andrew Edwards wrote:

> You're a godsend. Thank you very much.

:D

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/Jacob Carlborg