Re: [Roadnav-devel] Map download links changed

[<p4d...@sn...>]

	Great idea Ragnar. I suggested that to them, and they liked it. They  
said they'll do it, but it'll take a few weeks. So we're gonna have to  
wait a little bit I guess.

      Kyle

On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:56 AM, Ragnar Kjørstad roadnav-at- 
ragnark.vestdata.no |RoadNav| wrote:

> 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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