Greetings, cyg Simple! > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >>>> > I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would >>>> > give this stuff a try in the meantime. >>>> >>>> I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshots, at this rate it >>>> seems >>>> the right thing to do. >>>> Is there a direct way to query for the latest snapshot? >> >>> The snapshots always have a date attached to the filename. >> >> I mean, if there's a way to know, what is the latest available snapshot? >> If I want to write a script, that fetch [and install] one. >> I can parse the /snapshots/ page, of course, but this is the least desirable >> choice. For multiple reasons. I would like to have a single point, that could >> refer to the very latest snapshot. Even if it is something like >> /snapshots/x86/cygwin-inst-latest.tar.xz redirecting to >> actual latest snapshot, that'd be quite enough. >>
> You could just parse the setup.hint file from your favorite mirror. > test: cygwin-1.7.34-002 Thanks for suggestion, but test release =/= snapshot[1]. [1] http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 11.12.2014, <01:41> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
