rel eng suggestion: -current tgz

Hi,
  not sure if this is the really right place to discuss
since it is  
more a release engineering question, but I'll go:
  to help people get the current "official"
release of asterisk when  
they download it without having to look at all releases (I
just got  
that question and the current bottom of the list is
currently: 1.2.9  
while the latest is 1.2.9.1), I would suggest to have a
symbolic link  
for all tar files
in http://f
tp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/  such as:
ln -s asterisk-1.2.9.1.tar.gz asterisk-current.tar.gz
same for other tgz...

This way, one can always point people to the
"right" current tarball  
and reference it by default.

Just a suggestion.

Marc.
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On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:42, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>   not sure if this is the really right place to discuss
since it is
> more a release engineering question, but I'll go:
>   to help people get the current "official"
release of asterisk when
> they download it without having to look at all releases
(I just got
> that question and the current bottom of the list is
currently: 1.2.9
> while the latest is 1.2.9.1), I would suggest to have a
symbolic link
> for all tar files
> in http://f
tp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/  such as:
> ln -s asterisk-1.2.9.1.tar.gz asterisk-current.tar.gz
> same for other tgz...

Personally I *HATE* software releases like this (just a
symlink to the latest) 
-- you download -current.tgz and in 1 week have no idea what
version it is.  
You can't untar it because it untars to asterisk/ (again no
version info, not 
even asterisk-current/) and is just a generally messy way to
do things.

If -current.tgz untarred to asterisk-1.2.9.1/ or something
it'd be much 
better.  Personally I am a fan of the directory structure
having the latest 
in root and an old_releases/ or archive/ directory with all
the old ones.

-A.
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:19:17AM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith
wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:42, Marc Blanchet wrote:
> >   not sure if this is the really right place to
discuss since it is
> > more a release engineering question, but I'll go:
> >   to help people get the current
"official" release of asterisk when
> > they download it without having to look at all
releases (I just got
> > that question and the current bottom of the list
is currently: 1.2.9
> > while the latest is 1.2.9.1), I would suggest to
have a symbolic link
> > for all tar files
> > in http://f
tp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/  such as:
> > ln -s asterisk-1.2.9.1.tar.gz
asterisk-current.tar.gz
> > same for other tgz...
> 
> Personally I *HATE* software releases like this (just a
symlink to the latest) 
> -- you download -current.tgz and in 1 week have no idea
what version it is.  
> You can't untar it because it untars to asterisk/
(again no version info, not 
> even asterisk-current/) and is just a generally messy
way to do things.
> 
> If -current.tgz untarred to asterisk-1.2.9.1/ or
something it'd be much 
> better.  Personally I am a fan of the directory
structure having the latest 
> in root and an old_releases/ or archive/ directory with
all the old ones.

As it is a symlink to a tarball that is untarred to
asterisk-1.2.9.1 ,
you have nothing to worry about.

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On Thursday 22 June 2006 10:10, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> As it is a symlink to a tarball that is untarred to
asterisk-1.2.9.1 ,
> you have nothing to worry about.

If that's the case then I'm all for it!

-A.
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Le 06-06-22 à 09:19, Andrew Kohlsmith a écrit :

> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:42, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>>   not sure if this is the really right place to
discuss since it is
>> more a release engineering question, but I'll go:
>>   to help people get the current
"official" release of asterisk when
>> they download it without having to look at all
releases (I just got
>> that question and the current bottom of the list is
currently: 1.2.9
>> while the latest is 1.2.9.1), I would suggest to
have a symbolic link
>> for all tar files
>> in http://f
tp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/  such as:
>> ln -s asterisk-1.2.9.1.tar.gz
asterisk-current.tar.gz
>> same for other tgz...
>
> Personally I *HATE* software releases like this (just a
symlink to  
> the latest)
> -- you download -current.tgz and in 1 week have no idea
what  
> version it is.  
> You can't untar it because it untars to asterisk/
(again no version  
> info, not
> even asterisk-current/) and is just a generally messy
way to do  
> things.
>
> If -current.tgz untarred to asterisk-1.2.9.1/ or
something it'd be  
> much
> better.  Personally I am a fan of the directory
structure having  
> the latest
> in root and an old_releases/ or archive/ directory with
all the old  
> ones.

yeap, would do the trick too. I'm fine with either way.

Marc.

>
> -A.
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