On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 06:03:56PM -0500, Richard Heck wrote: > On 12/05/2015 03:56 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:26:41PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> I just > > saw a report of someone who just installed alpha1. This was > >> because I had put a link to alpha1 in the bug report a few weeks ago > so >> it was natural that they click on that rather than realize that > alpha2 >> has been released. It would be nice to instead provide a link > to the >> latest pre-release version. Any thoughts on whether that would > be useful >> and the best way to do that? > > What I have in mind is > something like putting a link under "Development > versions" that is > called "Latest development version", that the release > manager would > update on each pre-release. This link could be something > like > > http://www.lyx.org/Download/latest-pre > and for example now would point > to: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.2/lyx-2.2.0alpha2/ > > Is there any way to have a symbolic link on ftp? E.g., have > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/2.2-latest be a symbolic link? > > I just tried creating one, and it seemed as if it might work. "rsync > --dryrun etc" said it was going to do it.
Looks like a good idea to me. Can you send me the exact rsync command you used? Scott
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