Re: [PATCH] SCRIPTS: Create -LATEST symlink for each BRANCH

[Tim Düsterhus]

Willy,

Am 09.03.20 um 19:05 schrieb Willy Tarreau:
> Then why don't use use the snapshots, which already contain a LATEST link ?
> They're produced daily when there are changes, and they're even produced
> for stable branches if that's of any interest.
> 
>http://www.haproxy.org/download/2.2/src/snapshot/

for some reason I only saw the `-patches` tarball and missed / ignored
the `-ss` one. I guess that'll work for me, thanks.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus

Re: [PATCH] SCRIPTS: Create -LATEST symlink for each BRANCH

[Willy Tarreau]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 06:00:42PM +0100, Tim Duesterhus wrote:
> Willy,
> 
> I wanted to add VTest tests to [haproxy-auth-request]. I'd like to test the
> Lua script with various HAProxy branches and ideally run the test with the
> latest patch version for each branch instead of hardcoding whatever was
> recent when writing the tests.
> 
> This does not appear to be easily possible right now, because there is no
> real machine readable way to obtain that information to the best of my
> knowledge.
> 
> With this new symlinks I can simply download the -LATEST tarball and call
> it a day.

Then why don't use use the snapshots, which already contain a LATEST link ?
They're produced daily when there are changes, and they're even produced
for stable branches if that's of any interest.

   http://www.haproxy.org/download/2.2/src/snapshot/

Willy