Re: [Roadnav-devel] Map download links changed

[R. K. <ro...@ra...>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:35 AM,  <p4d...@sn...> wrote:
>        I hunted through their website yesterday, and my search yielded no
> results for any sort of file that gives the latest date, etc.
> Therefore, instead of submitting my code as-is, I emailed the
> maintainer of the files, and asked that person about the naming
> scheme. Hopefully they realize how difficult it is to link to files
> with constantly changing names, and move to a more static naming
> scheme. If they don't think that's viable, I'll ask them if they could
> create a file with the, uh... appendention (date modified) and let us
> know the link to that. Unfortunately... on the website they explicitly
> state that not all files have all been modified on the same date... so
> the links don't actually have all the same appendentions, which makes
> that option not so viable either. This really sucks, I hope they just
> rename them all and keep them that way. Anyway... I'll keep in touch
> about the response. I don't expect one until tomorrow.

A common way of handling this issue is to add a ".latest" symlink that
points to the newest file.


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Ragnar Kjørstad