[asterisk-dev] rel eng suggestion: -current tgz

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:19:17AM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:42, Marc Blanchet wrote:
> >   not sure if this is the really right place to discuss since it is
> > more a release engineering question, but I'll go:
> >   to help people get the current "official" release of asterisk when
> > they download it without having to look at all releases (I just got
> > that question and the current bottom of the list is currently: 1.2.9
> > while the latest is 1.2.9.1), I would suggest to have a symbolic link
> > for all tar files
> > in http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/  such as:
> > ln -s asterisk-1.2.9.1.tar.gz asterisk-current.tar.gz
> > same for other tgz...
> 
> Personally I *HATE* software releases like this (just a symlink to the latest) 
> -- you download -current.tgz and in 1 week have no idea what version it is.  
> You can't untar it because it untars to asterisk/ (again no version info, not 
> even asterisk-current/) and is just a generally messy way to do things.
> 
> If -current.tgz untarred to asterisk-1.2.9.1/ or something it'd be much 
> better.  Personally I am a fan of the directory structure having the latest 
> in root and an old_releases/ or archive/ directory with all the old ones.

As it is a symlink to a tarball that is untarred to asterisk-1.2.9.1 ,
you have nothing to worry about.

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