+1 for "latest". Not that this is a JAVA project, but that follows some 
already-established conventions from other apache projects (i.e. maven).

Aaron Coburn


> On May 27, 2015, at 3:28 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
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> I just remembered I hadn't updated the dist directory yet.  I just copied them
> and checked them in.  The mirrors should have them picked up by this time
> tomorrow.
> 
> I don't know if we decided for sure on a "current" or "latest" symlink.  For
> whatever reason, I like "latest" better.
> 
> Josh
> 
> On Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:41:34 PM Andy Kurth wrote:
> > 2 sounds ok to me.  Did we ever decide if we wanted to use something like a
> > "current" or "latest" symlink?
> > -Andy
> >
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>
> >
> > wrote:
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> > > I just discovered a problem with the vcl-install.sh and vcl-upgrade.sh
> > > scripts
> > > bundled with 2.4.2.  When we decided to move to putting all release files
> > > under a directory named after the version number when placing files at
> > > www.apache.org/dist/vcl, I didn't get the scripts updated to include the
> > > version number in the path from which they download the archive and
> > > signatures
> > > (i.e. they are downloading from /dist/vcl instead of /dist/vcl/2.4.2).  We
> > > have 2 options for fixing this:
> > >
> > > 1) release 2.4.3 with the paths included
> > > 2) copy the files that are under www.apache.org/dist/vcl/2.4.2 to
> > > www.apache.org/dist/vcl
> > >
> > > I'd prefer not to do yet another release (option 1).
> > >
> > > Regarding options 2, we decided to put all of the files under a version
> > > number
> > > because vcl-install.sh and vcl-upgrade.sh don't have version numbers in
> > > the
> > > filenames, and would thus keep getting updated in the /dist/vcl directory
> > > with
> > > each release, which could trigger an attack alert since the files would be
> > > modified.
> > >
> > > I think we'd be safe to copy all of the files from /dist/vcl/2.4.2 to
> > > /dist/vcl for one release.  Since vcl-install.sh and vcl-upgrade.sh are
> > > not
> > > currently in /dist/vcl, I don't think we'll trigger any alerts.  Then, for
> > > the
> > > next release, we'd have things fixed to be downloading from the correct
> > > URLs.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Josh
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