Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@uhulinux.hu> writes:
> I have a simple question: what good it is to have the download url with
> those "magic" numbers in them? Why not provide some sane and fix url like
> http://subversion.tigris.org/files/subversion-0.XX.tar.gz ?
>
> Sorry if you find this intrusive, but I cannot see the reason and do think
> this is annoying.
A reasonable question. The answer is, because we keep old copies of
Subversion available (sometimes people need to downgrade to test if a
bug is new, for example, or to dump an old repository). So there are
multiple tarballs available at any given moment.
If you're *trying* to download Subversion 0.27.2, then you can easily
make the correct URL, yet Subversion 0.27.1 is also still available
for those who need it. If you just know that you want the latest,
then just find out what the latest version is, and grab the
appropriate URL.
Some projects have a symlink that always links to the latest version,
i.e., just grab http://.../subversion.tar.gz, which references the
latest. The problem with that is that now you have a release URL
whose meaning changes depending on when you access it. We decided to
keep things absolutely predictable by always including the numeric
portion in the URL.
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Received on Thu Jul 17 20:14:15 2003