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

[Rainer M Krug]

Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> The latter. It is really just a automatic snapshot, not a tested
> release.

Thanks - so I will then use HEAD of the svn - easier to do in homebrew,
as no sha hash is needed of the downloaded file.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Vaclav
>
> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>> >
>> > Rainer
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Markus
>>
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