From: "Theo Veenker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It would not be difficult to write script which automatically downloads > the required files (using wget) for a given unicode version if there was > such a file as suggested by Philipppe.
Exactly. The Unicode site is not done for that... Automated downloads from the Unicode site is not something to think about... Instead it has to be a reference with data explaining what is part of its standard. So such a file would be a help for developers to get appropriate info and status about each of its components... And automating the downloads from various versions would be in fact a bad software design. Normally a Unicode program has to choose explicitly the versions of Unicode it wishes to support, as each new published version has its own new features and there are some subtle details that limit the usability of datafiles from previous versions (even if Unicode makes its best efforts to preserve an backward compatibility).
