>
> if I understood Onno's problem correctly [ probaply not ... ] what he
> wants is one single URL that would dowload the latest source.tgz version (
> without knowing exactly what the version number or name of the package is
> ).
>

You understood perfectly. This is precisely what I'm looking for.

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On Sat, 31 Dec 2022, 02:05 Kari Sillanmäki via wsjt-devel, <
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Hi Joe & Onno
>
> On 30.12.2022 16.41, Joe Taylor via wsjt-devel wrote:
>
> Hi Onno,
>
> I'm not sure that I understand your exact problem.  Does this link not
> work for your purpose?
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5.tgz/download
>
> That link works, but if I understood Onno's problem correctly [ probaply
> not ... ] what he wants is one single URL that would dowload the latest
> source.tgz version ( without knowing exactly what the version number or
> name of the package is ).
>
> The problem seems to be that "wget" utility downloads just the windows
> executable. Funny enough, using browser to access  URL
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/latest DOES return the
> source.tgz!!
>
> Some clever logic behind sourceforge server I guess..
>
> 73's de Kari, oh2gqc
>
>
>
>     -- 73, Joe, K1JT
>
> On 12/30/2022 1:23 AM, Onno Benschop via wsjt-devel wrote:
>
> Having spent several days attempting to find the answer in the
> documentation and the sourceforge HowTo information, I'm stuck.
>
> Is there a static link to the latest version of the source .tgz file, so I
> can automate the compilation of the latest released version under Linux?
>
>
> According to the sourceforge documentation the link to the latest version
> is:
>
>   * https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/latest
>     <https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/latest>
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/latest>
>
> Unfortunately that link only ever returns a Windows .exe file when using
> wget. I've not been able to discover a way to provide either URL options or
> tweak the user-agent of my wget command, to actually ever get the .tgz
> file.
>
>
> Although I can download a specific version using version numbers like
> this, this means that the URL is hard-coded and version dependent which
> defeats the purpose of what I'm working on:
>
>   *
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wsjt/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5.tgz
> <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wsjt/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5.tgz>
> <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wsjt/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5/wsjtx-2.6.0-rc5.tgz>
>
>
> I can clone it with git, which takes a long time, even at depth=1, but
> that requires another separate clone and build for hamlib. This works,
> mostly, but it means that I'm not actually testing the latest source code
> .tgz file:
>
>   * git clone --progress --depth 1 https://git.code.sf.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx
>     <https://git.code.sf.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx>
> <https://git.code.sf.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx>
>
>
> Is there a symbolic link to the latest version, cunningly named something
> like "wsjtx-latest.tgz" which doesn't change between versions?
>
>
>
> --
> Onno Benschop
>
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