Re: Static URLs pointing to releases

[Urs Liska]

Hi Phil,

thank you for pushing me in the right direction.

Of course that's possible. I'll have to use website/unix.html etc. but
these do give me the required information. And
http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/freebsd-64/ and friends
provide the links to all available binaries. I thought I couldn't "glob"
a URL like http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/freebsd-64/*
to get all available files but the index page *does* include all links.

Best
Urs


Am 10.03.2017 um 10:16 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
> To: "lilypond-devel" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 8:39 AM
> Subject: Static URLs pointing to releases
>
>
>> This had come up at some point, but I don't think we came to a
>> conclusion, so ...
>>
>> Is it possible to have static URLs somewhere at lilypond.org that point
>> to the binaries of the latest stable and latest development releases?
>>
>> The idea is for a script or program to be able to automatically retrieve
>> these binaries without a user having to manually specify them.
>>
>> Use cases are: arbitrary scripts, Frescobaldi, (openLilyLib) automated
>> testing.
>>
>> There should either be URLs for all provided versions or generic URLs
>> from which the link to a specific OS version can be generated.
>>
>> An alternative would be a, say, JSON file with the URLs for *all*
>> available binaries, not only the respective "latest". I'm sure there
>> would be people around who'd appreciate the ability to choose arbitrary
>> versions from a Frescobaldi-generated dropdown list.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Strictly speaking, there are static URLs that point at the binaries:
> http://lilypond.org/website/download.html for the stable and
> http://lilypond.org/website/development.html for the development. 
> Shouldn't be too hard to parse those to get the locations of the
> binaries themselves?
>
> -- 
> Phil Holmes

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