Open JustinGrote opened 4 years ago
The problem with this is if past manifests were broken and the fix also included a version bump.
I think it'd be far simpler and more reliable to have a legacy property similar to how architecture works, but instead of 32bit|64bit you'd have a version(s). But even that has a whole lot of problems to deal with for a fairly limited feature.
Maybe the best solution would be to request its addition to the versions bucket?
You might wanna check this. I wrote a custom script letting user installs package for specific version/commit.
https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/3045#issuecomment-1138042773
I think scoop supporting this would be the closest thing to sadf-vm
on windows, something I sorely miss from other OSes. I would highly, highly, request the implementation of this feature. Perhaps it could be considered an experimental or "at your own risk" feature. I don't want to be ungrateful of course, but just wanted to throw a vote into the pool
Currently if you want to install a previous version, scoop tries to autogenerate a manifest to see if it works, however there may be breaking changes between versions in the manifest that won't allow this.
However, there is a practical alternative:
scoop install zookeeper@3.6.0
git log -p <manifest>.json
and extracts a list of previous versions based on the version.json, since it would have changed every commitIt doesn't guarantee the file download would still exist of course, but it would allow a more traditional way of accessing past versions.