On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:14 PM, John Found <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, it is clear now. But this approach (and the RSS feed as well), has one > big disadvantage - I need to parse HTML (or XML) format aimed to be read by > a human. Of course, such data scrapping is possible, but isn't there more > elegant/machine oriented way... > XML is most definitely machine-oriented, but not necessarily easy to parse with most APIs/tools. Okay, i think i have it... Let's try: http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil/index.cgi/raw/version.txt?name=trunk That will give you the checkin record for the top of the given branch (name=BRANCHNAME) and getting the version from that is trivial: [stephan@host:~/]$ sha1sum ~/Downloads/version.txt 954a12be681d10ad5eddfd17c1918769140cecdd /home/stephan/Downloads/version.txt Indeed, 954a12be is the tip of the trunk branch at the moment. Alternately, no temp file is needed: [stephan@host:~/cvs/fossil]$ wget -q -O - http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil/index.cgi/raw/version.txt?name=trunk | sha1sum | cut -d' ' -f1 954a12be681d10ad5eddfd17c1918769140cecdd -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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