+1 I think this is a fantastic idea and hope who ever has write access to sagemath.org will do this.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it would be useful if there were two fixed links > > http://www.sagemath.org/dist/src/very-latest-release.tar > http://www.sagemath.org/dist/src/very-latest-release.md5 > > so one had a *permanent* link to the latest version, no matter if its > an alpha, beta, release or whatever. > > It would then be relatively easy to check for a new release and if one > exits to download it and compile without human intervention. (i.e test > in a cron job). A developer with a slightly obscure system could then > make the results of the build available to all on a web page by > putting the last 500 or so lines in a web page. > > I'll soon be out of England on business and will have little time to > work on Sage. But if there was a way to download the latest version > from a fixed URL, then I could put the results in a web page as soon > as the compile has finished. > > As long as the md5 checksum was in a small file, it would not be > necessary to download 200 MB file only to find its the same as the > version one already has. > > Dave > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
