#251: link to the latest version of a package tar file ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: ross@soi.city.ac.uk | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: HackageDB website | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Comment (by ross@soi.city.ac.uk): Replying to [comment:1 igloo]:
If you do this, if possible, can you do it so that something like wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/arrows/latest.tar.gz will end up creating a file called `arrows-0.4.tar.gz` please?
I ''think'' that making `latest.tar.gz` redirect to the real file name will behave like that.
That needs an HTTP Redirect response rather than just a symbolic link on the server. It's more work, but possible. I think I should also move all the tarballs for a package into a single directory, to suit tools like Debian's uscan that scan a directory for new versions. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/251#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects