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retorquere / zotero-better-bibtex

Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts
https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/
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Generic link to the latest release #172

Closed dbitouze closed 9 years ago

dbitouze commented 9 years ago

In https://github.com/ZotPlus/zotero-better-bibtex#installation-one-time, the link to the latest release in the sentence: "After installation, the plugin will auto-update to newer releases." is hard coded, currently:

https://zotplus.github.io/better-bibtex/zotero-better-bibtex-0.8.11.xpi

I would suggest to replace it by a generic one, e.g.:

https://zotplus.github.io/better-bibtex/zotero-better-bibtex-latest-release

which turns to go to the relevant current .xpi file.

retorquere commented 9 years ago

I can't do redirects on Github Pages, unfortunately. The link is indeed hardcoded, but the deployment script always updates it during the publishing process, and after the first-time installation the plugin is auto-updated by the firefox extension upgrade mechanism, which polls for https://zotplus.github.io/better-bibtex/update.rdf, which in turn always points to the latest version. So the redirect is there, after a fashion. After first-time installation, there;s really no need to ever download the xpi again, and even if you have stumbled upon an older version, auto-update will take care of it.

dbitouze commented 9 years ago

I knew for the automatic update but my feature request was because I'd want to give, in a LaTeX course PDF file available online, the direct link to the zotero-better-bibtex's (latest) installation file. But I understand the problem and will instead give the link to the Web page https://github.com/ZotPlus/zotero-better-bibtex#installation-one-time. Thanks.

retorquere commented 9 years ago

Ah, that's what you mean. You can use https://zotplus.github.io/better-bibtex/index.html#xpi, which will always trigger a download of the latest version.

dbitouze commented 9 years ago

This does the trick: thanks!