[Nix-dev] Re: Tracking upstream releases

[Michael Raskin]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> That's neat, but it's often more than needed.
> 
> For GNU projects, for instance, it's common for the web page to not
> contain a link to the latest tarball nor even the last version number.
> However, tarball URLs always follow the same scheme, so it's very easy
> from a series of `wget' (or something like "echo ls | lftp
> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/PROGRAM") to infer whether a new tarball is available.

Or you can simply get the http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/PROGRAM, look up the
links and sort them.

The correct question is not "whether it is often more than needed", the
correct question is "whether it is always enough and there is no
_simpler_ way". Maintaining complicated regexps is not simple..

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