Hey all, Thanks for writing. This isn't the first time someone has requested this. Take a look at this comment in Terraform to explain why we don't provide such a link, and how to do what you're asking for if you don't like our reasoning: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/9803#issuecomment-257903082
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:17 PM John Roh <[email protected]> wrote: > correct, I'm you can pass a version number to make things easier, isn't > it? URL is already pretty much consistent for that reason. > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:08 PM Aaron Kulbe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's not what he's asking for. He's asking for the link to be >> https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/latest and have it consistently >> point to the latest version, so he never has to go and manually navigate to >> that page and pick the latest version. >> >> I agree that what he's asking for is useful. Consider this my vote for >> that request! 😁 >> >> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 4:19 PM John Roh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You can go to https://www.packer.io/downloads.html and click " download >>> other versions of Packer" <https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/> >>> There are all previous and current release you can access from. V1.3.2 >>> is the latest version, I think. >>> >>> John. >>> <https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:41 PM Scott Wellnitz <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> can we get a latest link in your downloads area so when automating we >>>> can always get the latest released version instead of having to update the >>>> path to specific versions as you all release? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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