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probonopd / go-appimage

Go implementation of AppImage tools
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Use predictable file names for the continuous release #227

Closed quyykk closed 1 year ago

quyykk commented 1 year ago

On each update to the continuous build the version number gets incremented. This is not ideal because it makes it impossible to predictably always download the latest continuous build.

This PR changes the version in the filename to continuous for the continuous release, so that the filenames are always the same.

probonopd commented 1 year ago

Each AppImage shall have the version in its name so that people can keep around multiple versions easily.

To download the latest continuous build in scripts, you can use something like

wget -c https://github.com/$(wget -q https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases -O - | grep "appimaged-.*-x86_64.AppImage" | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2)

Ideally we would have a static URL that would redirect to always the latest download URL, but I haven't figured out a way to do this on GitHub Releases.

quyykk commented 1 year ago

Ideally we would have a static URL that would redirect to always the latest download URL

There's https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases/tag/continuous which links to the continuous release directly, but I don't think you meant that.

Unfortunately your snippet doesn't work because GitHub loads the assets with JS, and so they're not available when using wget. I don't think there is a way to get the latest download URL directly without predictable filenames, except of course by doing GitHub API calls but that's not trivial.

As an alternative, could you periodically create new tags (i.e. releases) so that there is a stable download URL?

probonopd commented 1 year ago

Indeed they seem to have changed something, so https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases/expanded_assets/continuous needs to be used now.

probonopd commented 1 year ago

Tested, working:

wget -c https://github.com/$(wget -q https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases/expanded_assets/continuous -O - | grep "appimaged-.*-x86_64.AppImage" | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2)

Updated documentation accordingly.