Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

Here's how you can download the latest version from smdrop without dependencies like lynx.
At least that's the way it's currently done in the calladmin project.

I'm no perl guy but looking at the way the files are packaged and uploaded it looks like you could either rename the package after it has been uploaded and upload that too or create two packages and upload both. What am i missing?

Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

I never knew that existed. Thanks!

Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

That would certainly work, but is a bit hacky. You'd wind up having a static filename, like sourcemod-1.8.0-latest and not know exactly what build you've downloaded.

When I said it was complex, I was referring to having a dynamic web link that would redirect to the latest download file (with untouched filename, including the build number).

I'm still not completely sold on the idea of having a programmatic way to download the latest build as I believe you should know what you're downloading, not just grabbing it because it's new. Regardless, it's very clear that it's a feature people want and are just going to scrape the downloads page or file list to get it if not provided another solution. I'll try to have something implemented this week.

Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

You should take that as a measurement of how much trust we put on you SM devs.

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It's more of a measurement of it not being feasible to test every change against every supported game on every supported OS.

Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

This has been added now. It's not documented anywhere yet, but I'll add a note on the downloads page tomorrow.

http://sourcemod.net/latest.php?os=<os>&version=<majorVersion>

Valid OS strings are: windows, linux, mac
Valid versions at time of writing are: 1.7, 1.8

Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

Am I going insane, or have the linux downloads at https://www.sourcemod.net/downloads.php all become archives of archives? The windows & mac ones seem fine.

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Can you link a specific one? I spot-checked a few and they seem to be fine - a single tarball, compressed with gzip.

Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

Hmm, you're right. 7Zip seemed to have issues with .tar.gz files for me I suppose. That with the latest links on the smdrop page not being the archives, but the latest filenames had me all confused.

Re: Changes - Part 2: Rolling Release Cycle
 

Yes, that's how 7-zip handles tarballs. It opens the outer .gz, which contains a .tar.