Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.rido...@yahoo.it> wrote: > >> > AFAIK, that's the latest *released* version: > >> > releases. If you don't want to use git to get the latest development > >> > version, you can get a tarball of it (or any version really) from > >> > >> Ok I was told differently on this list but ok. > > Not only on this list, but also in the home-page ! > > > > I may be mistaken: > > Yes, you are ;). Or, at least, you /should/ be wrong ;-) > > > But there are occasional hiccups and sometimes the tarballs > > get out of sync, e.g. most recently at the end of September - see > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31131 > > Yes :-( > > > > > Currently I see both org-latest.zip and org-latest.tar.gz dated > > 2010-10-16 01:00 > > That's strange. I downloaded org-latest.zip on the 20th October > and the commit was: > Org-mode version 7.01trans commit-4cd56cfa7b93902544acb32848e36ee4004239a3 > And it seemed to me that was the latest. >
I don't know: I still see Oct 16 dates, but I don't have time to investigate carefully. > > - and, btw, the top-level directory in both archives is > > org-mode-web, which, according to Bastien in the above thread, is wrong > > and should be fixed. > > Yes, I did some black magic to have a working > org-latest.zip(org-mode/blah-blah) > > > > >> > http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git > >> > Choose which snapshot you want and click the tar.gz or zip link at > >> > the right end of the corresponding line > > Uhhh nice! Thanks, Nick, I've learned something new today. > Thanks are due Jambunathan K. (iirc): he pointed that out a couple of days ago. I'm just a conduit :-) > Bastien, would it be possible that the link in the homepage: > > For people who cannot use git we provide <a href="org-latest.zip">zip</a> > or <a href="org-latest.tar.gz">tar.gz</a> snapshot release > files updated each day > and corresponding to the latest git version. > > will point to such page? > > E.g. > > For people who cannot use git, the > snapshot release files, > corresponding to the latest git version, > are provided <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git">in the git > repository</a>. Choose which snapshot you want, presumably > the first line in the "shortlog" section and click the > tar.gz or zip link at the right end. > > Pros: we will not have the problems of syncing > > Cons: we will not have the file http://orgmode.org/org-latest.tar.gz > one can download directly, in a script... > but they have to use the browser. > Maybe keep org-latest.{tgz,zip} on orgmode.org, but add a mention of the other method just in case there are syncing problems with the tarballs. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode