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

[Marc Blanchet]

Le 06-06-22 à 09:19, Andrew Kohlsmith a écrit :

> 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.

yeap, would do the trick too. I'm fine with either way.

Marc.

>
> -A.
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