[haiku] Re: Naming of current optional packages

  • From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:43:29 -0800

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:52 -0800, Urias McCullough wrote:
> 2009/11/15 André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > I believe Koki's suggestion is not to leave just the latest build available
> > for download, but to have a symlink along the lines of
> > packagename-latest.zip pointing to the latest build, like many projects
> > (FreeBSD and Mozilla come to mind) provide.

I did not think about a symlink, but this indeed sounds like a good
idea.

...

> The drawback to having a single link to download the latest version is
> that it becomes another thing that needs to be updated every time an
> optional package is updated.

Asking out of ignorance: are optional packaged updated that often for
this to be an issue?

Regards,

Jorge/aka Koki



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