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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Hammond <[email protected]>
Cc: CAJ CAJ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:54:45 -0400
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Andrew Hammond escribió:
> On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond
> ><[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given
> >> major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing
> >> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to
> >connect to ftp
> >> (which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting
> >> hammered or something?) and doing the parsing that? Both approaches
> >> feel quite awkward to me.
> >
> >Use wget to download via  HTTP (added recently).  Probably wise to add a
> >couple mirrors in your script.
> 
> I'm not asking how to download stuff. I'm asking how to figure out the
> current release number for a given major.minor. I thought that was
> clear in my original post, but I guess not. For example, how do I
> determine (programmatically) the lastest version of 8.1.

Maybe get configure.in from CVS:
cvs log configure.in
and parse the "symbolic names" list?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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