On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >>> > I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would >>> > give this stuff a try in the meantime. >>> >>> I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshots, at this rate it >>> seems >>> the right thing to do. >>> Is there a direct way to query for the latest snapshot? > >> The snapshots always have a date attached to the filename. > > I mean, if there's a way to know, what is the latest available snapshot? > If I want to write a script, that fetch [and install] one. > I can parse the /snapshots/ page, of course, but this is the least desirable > choice. For multiple reasons. I would like to have a single point, that could > refer to the very latest snapshot. Even if it is something like > /snapshots/x86/cygwin-inst-latest.tar.xz redirecting to > actual latest snapshot, that'd be quite enough. >
You could just parse the setup.hint file from your favorite mirror. test: cygwin-1.7.34-002 -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
