On 17 Jul 2003 kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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.
Why not simply put all the versions in 1 directory? Like:
http://.../files/subversion-0.20.tar.gz
subversion-0.24.2.tar.gz
subversion-0.30.tar.gz
...
Maybe if you think it would be too many files in a directory (i do think
it's not, but anyway), you could create an "old" directory, where _all_
(old and current) versions are available, and in the outer dir only the
most current version(s).
> 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.
How can I know the exact url if I only know that I need eg 0.27.2?
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pozsy
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Received on Thu Jul 17 20:22:11 2003