DMD 0.81 release (page 2)

"Julio Jiménez" wrote... > > I do it too. But how do you know that the version you are downloading is > the right?..... by example if Walter forget upgrade the website... or > there is a net problem... :-) > > regards > > Julio > Yeah, had a problem like this few months ago when an assembler I'm using was updated and put up on the website. However, when I go & download it, it gave me the old thing. Turned out my ISP was caching the old copy on their server and it wasn't updating properly. Had to resort to rerouting my internet through my uni proxy to get the updated version or else I would have had to wait for like another couple of weeks (after I complained!). To discover whether you've got the new version, of course you can just type dmd to see what it says ;-) KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine

You could alternativly save it as a different name. Phill. "KTC" <me@here.com> wrote in message news:c2i5cs$ndh$1@digitaldaemon.com... > > "imr1984" wrote in message... > > > > i agree. i have loads of dmd.zips around the place. > > > > Normally when I download updated version of new software, I just > delete the old version. > (Sometime makeing sure the new one works first ^_^) > > However, I does still have DMD v0.50 laying around somewhere :-D It's not the earliest version I download but the the earliest that I still have a copy of... I wonder what the earliest version of DMD people still have ? > > KTC > -- > Experience is a good school but the fees are high. > - Heinrich Heine > >

imr1984 wrote: >>Would be good to write the version number in the zip file >> >>dmd.zip -> dmd-0.81.zip or something >> >>regards >> >>Julio >> >> I'll point out one disadvantage of this idea: It makes it harder for automated updaters to find the most recent version of DMD. Of course you could have two files or another file that has the latest update file location in it. -- -Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

Julio Jiménez wrote: > J Anderson wrote: > >> imr1984 wrote: >> >>>> Would be good to write the version number in the zip file >>>> >>>> dmd.zip -> dmd-0.81.zip or something >>>> >>>> regards >>>> >>>> Julio >>>> >>> >> >> >> I'll point out one disadvantage of this idea: >> It makes it harder for automated updaters to find the most recent version of DMD. Of course you could have two files or another file that has the latest update file location in it. >> > > And... how do you know what is the mos recent version before download it? ... :-) > actually the filename is allways dmd.zip > > regards > > Julio > Before, see the webpage. After check the date. Actually I think it's possible to check the file date without downloading it. For an automated file downloader simply checking the size normally works. PS - Sorry everyone for sending to their email, the button in mozilla has changed locations and I'm not used to its position. -- -Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

March 09, 2004

Re: DMD 0.81 release

Posted by Julio Jiménez
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Julio Jiménez

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J Anderson wrote:
> Julio Jiménez wrote:
> 
>> J Anderson wrote:
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>>> imr1984 wrote:
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>>>>> Would be good to write the version number in the zip file
>>>>>
>>>>> dmd.zip -> dmd-0.81.zip or something
>>>>>
>>>>> regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Julio
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll point out one disadvantage of this idea:
>>> It makes it harder for automated updaters to find the most recent version of DMD.  Of course you could have two files or another file that has the latest update file location in it.
>>>
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>> And... how do you know what is the mos recent version before download it? ... :-)
>> actually the filename is allways dmd.zip
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Julio
>>
> 
> Before, see the webpage. After check the date.  Actually I think it's possible to check the file date without downloading it.  For an automated file downloader simply checking the size normally works.
> 
> PS - Sorry everyone for sending to their email, the button in mozilla has changed locations and I'm not used to its position.
> 

Yes.. of course.. throw ftp to ditigitalmars.com you can see the date and test if it is newer than yours before download it.

But with version number in filename you can test the name and split the version number too... and really know that it is the version you want....

Really that's not a problem, only saying what I think about it... visit sourceforge.net all the projects (or almost all) have version number to follow it's changes in the time.

Regards.

Julio

J Anderson wrote: > imr1984 wrote: > >>> Would be good to write the version number in the zip file >>> >>> dmd.zip -> dmd-0.81.zip or something >>> >>> regards >>> >>> Julio >>> > > > I'll point out one disadvantage of this idea: > It makes it harder for automated updaters to find the most recent version of DMD. Of course you could have two files or another file that has the latest update file location in it. > If that's a serious problem, it's easily solved. Merely have two files on the server. One the latest version, with the number included (e.g., dmd-0.81.zip) and the other a simple link to it which provides you with a file named dmd.zip, which is actually constructed by sending the numbered version. I'm rather sure that this is simple no matter which web server you are using. OTOH, I'd be staisfied if it just said on the web page which file was being downloaded. Say within a line of the download link.

Is any of the stuff in /etc/c/stlsoft usable in D ? And why is thier .cpp files in /etc/c/recls ? C On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:56:05 -0800, Walter <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote: > Fixes build break in Ant's DUI. > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html > > > -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

"C" <dont@respond.com> wrote in message news:opr4n2yke3ehmtou@localhost | Is any of the stuff in /etc/c/stlsoft usable in D ? | | And why is thier .cpp files in /etc/c/recls ? | | C | I have a question about phobos: what is it, exactly? I mean, is Phobos the D runtime library for the DigitalMars compiler, or is it the D runtime library? In other words, what parts of Phobos should be in every D compiler? ----------------------- Carlos Santander Bernal

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