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digitalmars.D - Symlink to Latest dmd on the Digital Mars FTP

reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
Could we get a symlink or something to the latest dmd release (one for 
d1 and one for d2) on the Digital Mars FTP?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jan 13 2011
next sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
== Quote from Jacob Carlborg (doob me.com)'s article

 Could we get a symlink or something to the latest dmd release (one for
 d1 and one for d2) on the Digital Mars FTP?


http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd1beta.zip
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip

Are apparently zips of the latest releases (download and diff'd them). Whether
or
not they are links is not for me to say. :)

Regards
Jan 13 2011
parent reply Michel Fortin <michel.fortin michelf.com> writes:
On 2011-01-13 15:43:16 -0500, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> said:


 == Quote from Jacob Carlborg (doob me.com)'s article

 Could we get a symlink or something to the latest dmd release (one for
 d1 and one for d2) on the Digital Mars FTP?


 
 http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd1beta.zip
 http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip
 
 Are apparently zips of the latest releases (download and diff'd them). 
 Whether or
 not they are links is not for me to say. :)


They'll link to unstable versions from time to time.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
Jan 13 2011
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2011-01-14 00:32, Michel Fortin wrote:

 On 2011-01-13 15:43:16 -0500, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> said:


 == Quote from Jacob Carlborg (doob me.com)'s article

 Could we get a symlink or something to the latest dmd release (one for
 d1 and one for d2) on the Digital Mars FTP?


 http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd1beta.zip
 http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip

 Are apparently zips of the latest releases (download and diff'd them).
 Whether or
 not they are links is not for me to say. :)


 They'll link to unstable versions from time to time.


That was what I assumed, they do have "beta" in the name.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jan 14 2011
prev sibling parent reply Michel Fortin <michel.fortin michelf.com> writes:
On 2011-01-13 15:07:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> said:


 Could we get a symlink or something to the latest dmd release (one for 
 d1 and one for d2) on the Digital Mars FTP?


I'm currently using this shell script inside the D for Xcode installer 
(change the regex for DMD 1):


DMD_FILE_REGEX='dmd.2.(\d+).zip'
DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME=$(curl --fail 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html -s | perl -e '
$filename = "";
$vers = 0;
while (<>) {
  if (/\bhttp:\/\/ftp\.digitalmars\.com\/('$DMD_FILE_REGEX')\b/) {
    if ($2 > $vers) {
      $vers = $2; $filename = $1;
    }
  }
}
print "$filename";
');
if [ $? != 0 ] || [ "$DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME" == "" ]
then
	echo "Error retrieving current DMD version."
	exit -1
fi


DMD_URL="http://ftp.digitalmars.com/$DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME"


-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
Jan 13 2011
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2011-01-14 00:32, Michel Fortin wrote:

 On 2011-01-13 15:07:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> said:


 Could we get a symlink or something to the latest dmd release (one for
 d1 and one for d2) on the Digital Mars FTP?


 I'm currently using this shell script inside the D for Xcode installer
 (change the regex for DMD 1):


 DMD_FILE_REGEX='dmd.2.(\d+).zip'
 DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME=$(curl --fail
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html -s | perl -e '
 $filename = "";
 $vers = 0;
 while (<>) {
 if (/\bhttp:\/\/ftp\.digitalmars\.com\/('$DMD_FILE_REGEX')\b/) {
 if ($2 > $vers) {
 $vers = $2; $filename = $1;
 }
 }
 }
 print "$filename";
 ');
 if [ $? != 0 ] || [ "$DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME" == "" ]
 then
 echo "Error retrieving current DMD version."
 exit -1
 fi


 DMD_URL="http://ftp.digitalmars.com/$DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME"


I would hope to not have to use a "hack" like this. But thanks anyway.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jan 14 2011
parent Michel Fortin <michel.fortin michelf.com> writes:
On 2011-01-14 15:01:42 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> said:


 On 2011-01-14 00:32, Michel Fortin wrote:

 On 2011-01-13 15:07:41 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> said:
 

 Could we get a symlink or something to the latest dmd release (one for
 d1 and one for d2) on the Digital Mars FTP?


 
 I'm currently using this shell script inside the D for Xcode installer
 (change the regex for DMD 1):
 

 DMD_FILE_REGEX='dmd.2.(\d+).zip'
 DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME=$(curl --fail
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html -s | perl -e '
 $filename = "";
 $vers = 0;
 while (<>) {
 if (/\bhttp:\/\/ftp\.digitalmars\.com\/('$DMD_FILE_REGEX')\b/) {
 if ($2 > $vers) {
 $vers = $2; $filename = $1;
 }
 }
 }
 print "$filename";
 ');
 if [ $? != 0 ] || [ "$DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME" == "" ]
 then
 echo "Error retrieving current DMD version."
 exit -1
 fi
 

 DMD_URL="http://ftp.digitalmars.com/$DMD_ARCHIVE_NAME"


 
 I would hope to not have to use a "hack" like this. But thanks anyway.


I actually emailed Walter before writing this code, asking him if he 
could add a way to get the latest version. He suggested I do that 
instead.

In the real code there's also a fallback checking a file on my website 
that is supposed to contain the latest version number, but I'm not 
really keeping it up to date since this hack hasn't failed me yet.


-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
Jan 14 2011