[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk download file locations

[Alistair Cunningham]

Colin,

Because having the logic is not the correct thing to do from an 
engineering point of view. Consider:

- What if Digium change the directory structure again? Having a 
published directory structure is the elegant thing to do.

- Not only does it break build scripts but it breaks search engines too.

- Our scripts already have more conditional logic than I'm happy with, 
dealing with all the inconsistencies that Linux distributions throw at 
us. Anything which makes the installation process less brittle is a good 
thing.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
+44 20 799 39 799
sip:acunningham at integrics.com
http://integrics.com/


Colin Anderson wrote:
> Why wouldn't you build in trivial conditional logic into your script or
> mirror the Asterisk builds yourself?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alistair Cunningham [mailto:acunningham at integrics.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:20 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion;
> webmaster at digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk download file locations
> 
> 
> This is a request to the website manager for asterisk.org.
> 
> The build scripts for our ITSP product include the URLs to download the 
> Asterisk files, such as:
> 
> wget "http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.2.5.tar.gz"
> 
> However, if a new version is released, asterisk-1.2.5.tar.gz is moved to 
> the "old" directory. This breaks our scripts until we can update them 
> and send them to our resellers.
> 
> Would it be possible to have a fixed address for a particular asterisk 
> release that will never (or at least not for a long time) change? 
> Perhaps put all (except very old) versions in the same directory, with a 
>   'latest' link to the latest one?
>