RE: svn tarball download link

Hiya,

wget might be able to follow a HTTP redirect - not sure - but it certainly
doesn't follow a meta-tag with http-equiv="refresh" ... (I just checked).

Regards,

--Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: cmpilato@collab.net [mailto:cmpilato@collab.net]
Sent: woensdag 10 september 2003 17:50
To: Leeuw van der, Tim
Cc: 'Jani Monoses'; dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: svn tarball download link

"Leeuw van der, Tim" <tim.leeuwvander@nl.unisys.com> writes:

> Since the releases are made from the tags, and not a branch or the trunk,
> the revision number is not very useful anyways... I believe the consensus
> is, that revision numbers are kind of meaningless for designating
releases.
> Perhaps the revision number could be moved somewhere to the back of the
> filename for future releases? Or just omitted?

Those numbers that you see as intermediate directories (like the
"15/5977" in "http://.../15/5977/subversion-0.29.0.tar.gz") aren't
Subversion revision numbers. They are an artifact of the SourceCast
file sharing system, and, unless I'm mistaken, are quite
unpredictable.

I just checked in a new redirection page so that folks can always get
the latest Subversion tarball:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/latest_tarball.html

I don't think that 'wget' knows how to follow HTML redirects, and if
the other developers think this idea is whack, I've no problems with
reverting it. But perhaps it will help someone.

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