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#1 2014-07-11 12:33:16

gaekwad
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Symlink for latest version

I can curl or wget this URL to download the latest Wordpress:

http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

There doesn’t appear to be an equivalent to latest.tar.gz or latest.zip for Textpattern. The actual URL doesn’t really matter, as long as it can be relied on.

Could this be considered as part of the release process, please?

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#2 2015-03-25 12:00:41

gaekwad
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#3 2015-03-25 19:16:51

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Re: Symlink for latest version

I’d be more interested in having an easy way to retrieve the version number of the latest release, so it would be possible to periodically check if there is a new version.

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#4 2015-03-25 20:13:18

gaekwad
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Re: Symlink for latest version

ruud wrote #289413:

I’d be more interested in having an easy way to retrieve the version number of the latest release, so it would be possible to periodically check if there is a new version.

Would this help?

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#5 2015-03-26 16:09:09

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Re: Symlink for latest version

Perfect :)

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#6 2015-05-07 10:17:23

gaekwad
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Re: Symlink for latest version

This now works: http://textpattern.com/latest.zipthanks very much, wet.

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#7 2015-05-07 11:20:02

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Re: Symlink for latest version

This one as well: http://textpattern.com/latest.tar.gz

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#8 2015-05-07 14:32:37

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Re: Symlink for latest version

ruud wrote #289413:

I’d be more interested in having an easy way to retrieve the version number of the latest release, so it would be possible to periodically check if there is a new version.

The function checkUpdates() in /include/txp_diag.php is what I was looking for.

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