Bug 12456 – Regression: Direct downloads are no longer available from the changelog
Status
RESOLVED
Resolution
WONTFIX
Severity
regression
Priority
P2
Component
dlang.org
Product
D
Version
D2
Platform
All
OS
All
Creation time
2014-03-24T14:50:00Z
Last change time
2014-04-23T19:58:32Z
Keywords
pull
Assigned to
andrej.mitrovich
Creator
andrej.mitrovich
Comments
Comment #0 by andrej.mitrovich — 2014-03-24T14:50:34Z
From the changelog page (http://dlang.org/changelog.html) it used to be very easy to grab an older zipped release (e.g. to track regressions), but now all links redirect to http://dlang.org/download.html.
From the download page there doesn't seem to be a way to find the older versions of D.
Apparently there is also this new section of the website:
http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/
But I don't see this being linked to from anywhere. Additionally it has a really weird layout by putting everything into yearly folders, which isn't useful when you're just trying to find an exact version.
Comment #1 by dlang-bugzilla — 2014-03-25T09:45:26Z
Putting things into yearly folders makes no sense. If a user tells a program to get D version X.YYY, the software now must also ask the user, "Which year was that released in?", or use heuristics such as parsing some webpage.
Comment #2 by andrej.mitrovich — 2014-03-25T09:57:13Z
Speaking of which, does anyone know if the recent changes might have broken tools like DVM[1]? I rarely used the tool so I wouldn't know.
[1] : https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm
Comment #3 by dlang-bugzilla — 2014-03-25T10:00:20Z
DVM (at least 0.3.0) seems to still use the DigitalMars mirror (ftp.digitalmars.com), which does not use the year structure. It seems to have gotten a lot faster now, so I guess that problem is not so acute as long as that mirror is discoverable by writers of D installers.