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LAS Specification
https://www.asprs.org/committee-general/laser-las-file-format-exchange-activities.html
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Provide updated link to PDF in README.md #22

Closed esilvia closed 6 years ago

esilvia commented 7 years ago

Currently the Travis-CI build is setup to have a PDF link with the commit # built into its URL, so as far as I can tell it's impossible for GitHub to have a link to the current PDF in the README.md. This would be very useful to have for intermediate builds, although one could argue that the ONLY valid link is the current version posted on the ASPRS website.

Some ideas:

  1. Populate the link with the branch name instead and replace the PDF with every commit. Then the only issue is that the link would have to be different for every branch, which can get messy.
  2. Have GitHub automatically run a post-commit Amend that populates the Commit # in the URL. Possibly messy in the commit history.
  3. Store the URL in some external file on Google Drive/AWS/Dropbox.
esilvia commented 6 years ago

After some discussion, @hobu and I decided that this is a terrible idea, as it would encourage widespread implementation and usage of draft versions of the specification.