Fourth question has been answered, but I was looking at the source code to find my answer. Now, to go step back in time.... :]
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Stephen Chrzanowski <pontiac76 at gmail.com> wrote: > For the past year, I've had a script that runs daily that reads all the > links off of http://sqlite.org/download.html and downloads anything that > is missing. It has been a long while since I've looked at this particular > section of my NAS, but thought I'd bring my repositories up to snuff, and > build my own DLLs against each revision posted again. (So, yes, Richard, > as a prank, you could slap a 1tb garbage file up and my script would > dutifully download it.... My ISP would LOVE more of my money) > > First, I noticed that there hasn't been anything posted new for the > amalgamation a long while (July 30 for 3.08.11.01 according to my file > systems time stamp), so thinking that my script broke for whatever reason, > curiosity bit me. I checked the download site and no, things seem to be > working. So a testament to stability, both for the code, and surprisingly > for my script!! > > Second, I noticed that on the download page itself TODAY has no reference > to files named "sqlite-amalgamation-YYYYMMDDHHmm.zip" yet I have a bunch of > them in my archives. Are these the files put up for the purpose of the > pre-releases of a finalized build and my script is working better than > expected??? (I might get the script to filter those files out, but being a > digital file packrat....) > > Third, I don't know if it is something that can be done now, but I've > noticed that on a very few of these downloads, I'm getting file sizes in > the 5kb range. Looking at the raw bytes of the zip file in a text editor > is a bit strange, but it looks like the .zip file was downloaded as an HTML > file. (As in, rename the zip file to .TXT and open up in notepad, kinda > raw content). I'm thinking that the web server didn't find the file when I > requested so just spit out the page. > > Fourth, a little bit of hand-holding might be needed, but do the zipped > archives of the released amalgamations (Not the dated files) exist on the > web server somewhere, or can I get the zip from the SQlite repo? If only > from the repo, where can I get either the .c/.h or .zip file for older > versions? (Just in case I miss a revision in the future because of that > 5kb thing) -- Maybe because of that 5kb thing I should write into my script > that any zip file that is less than 100kb should be just flat out deleted. > I'm a somewhat interested in getting older versions for the sake of just > having them, and going back to them in case I want/need them. >
