I have a small program that downloads and installs an arbitrary version of Tomcat, using the API provided by Apache to select the proper mirror, and so forth.
The script currently takes the Tomcat version as an argument. My script provides a default (which in my case is the latest version of Tomcat 7), but I have to manually update that default whenever I notice a new version has been released. What would be the best way for the script itself to determine the latest available version? Obviously I would give points for "easy" and points for "robust," knowing that those two things might be in conflict. I can think of many horrifying ways to do it: * loop through integers starting with the last known version, attempting to download 7.0.x, until getting a 404 * scraping and parsing the HTML at http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/, which I expect is rather stable So my challenge isn't coming up with *a* way to do it, but coming up with the best way. Suggestions? -- David P. Caldwell http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
