[Live-demo] Enhancement for Version number in Online Documentation

[Alex Mandel]

On 07/07/2011 11:37 AM, Frank Gasdorf wrote:
> 2011/7/7 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> 
>> Frank,
>>
>> No there is not a deployment script which uploads the ISOs, it's much
>> more complicated than you think since that url is actually redirected to
>> a tool that then sorts people's downloads amongst the 5 mirrors.
>>
>> The url as defined by the last release will be correct for the next
>> release.
>> Where:
>>
>> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/release/[version]/osgeo-live-[version].iso
>>
>>
>> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/release/[version]/osgeo-live-mini-[version].iso
>>
>>
>> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/release/[version]/osgeo-live-vm-[version].7z
>>
>> End up as:
>> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/release/5.0/osgeo-live-5.0.iso
>>
>> I'll just have to remember to stick to that naming convention when I'm
>> making new versions
>>
> 
> Correct me, when I'm wrong, I understood, that there is an naming convention
> and if we use a pattern like the version replacement, we could change the
> download.rst files in the way you summarized. So we don't have to care about
> it in the future except the naming convention or uploading area will change.
> 
> Give me a go and I can update the download.rst files ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
Yes go ahead and make the change to create the links dynamically. Those
are the correct naming conventions we intend to use. The url is unlikely
to change in the foreseeable future aside from a new folder for each
version (which is accounted for in your method).

Thanks,
Alex