[GRASS-dev] Weekly snapshot - link with non-changing name?

[Rainer M Krug]

Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> writes:

> Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a homebrew recipe for installing grass 7.1 on a Mac. But whenever
>>> I want to update to a new weekly snapshot, I have to change the URL from
>>> which to download the weekly snapshot.
>>> Would it be possible to add a link, e,g,
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/source/snapshot/grass-7.1.weekly_snapshot.tar.gz
>>> `----
>>>
>>> so that the URL used can stay the same?
>>
>> Yes, done:
>>
>> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/source/snapshot/
>> --> grass-7.1.svn_src_snapshot_latest.tar.gz
>>
>> this is a link to the latest snashot file.
>
> Perfect - thanks.

Quick follow up - is the weekly snapshot supposed to be more stable than
the svn version, or is is simply a snapshot taken automatically once a
week?

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> Markus

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