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Geocaching query tool written in Ruby
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Direct downloads from Drive? (Was: Where do I get the latest stable source code?) #325

Closed svetlemodry closed 7 years ago

svetlemodry commented 9 years ago

Hi, I'm the maintainer of the Arch Linux AUR geotoad package. It seems the latest stable version is supposed to be the v3.23.1 already. Where can I download the source code for that particular version? There seem to be no usual tags or releases visible in this repository. Thanks!

steve8x8 commented 9 years ago

I'm surprised there's a geotoad package for another Linux distro than Debian - and I would never have learned about that without the hassle caused by Google Code closing down. (And there might be others lurking... Step forward now!) To answer your - and perhaps other packagers' - question: In the Wiki (link at the right hand side) Home page, there's a "one size fits all" link to Google Drive, and with each release ("CurrentVersion" page) comes a pointer to the recent tarball (which would be your starting point). Apologies that I didn't manage proper release tagging yet, that's something I'll work on in the future - for now please use the tarball.

steve8x8 commented 8 years ago

Although there are now tags which are related to a release, the tarball produced by github isn't recommended as a starting point for whichever derivative work - e.g. the "VERSION" string is only substituted during my release process (check tools/build/Makefile for details). Please use "my" published tarball, available from Google Drive, only. Links are here (wiki:CurrentVersion) and on freshcode.club/projects/geotoad - thanks, S

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svetlemodry commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the update. Is there a way how to point to a direct download link of the google disk tarball? I seem to be missing it or GDisk does not allow such functionality. I'm going for the tagged github tarball for now.

steve8x8 commented 8 years ago

I'd like to know this as well - I'd love to make deb packages available via sources.list entries again, but haven't figured out how to fit this into the GDrive context. Apparently, direct download links don't work as easily as GCode did :( Anyone with more insight? raising the "HELP!!!" flag

steve8x8 commented 8 years ago

GitHub upon tagging a new release, creates a tarball https://github.com/steve8x8/geotoad/archive/${VERSION}.tar.gz, and links it in https://github.com/steve8x8/geotoad/releases. While there are several places left with a %VERSION% placeholder (which I don't want to update with every possible release candidate), there's also a tools/build/Makefile which would get executed by me when preparing a release, and which contains the necessary sed replacements. I'm only using Debian, but I would consider adding RPM-style .spec and possibly other files to assist packaging.

steve8x8 commented 7 years ago

%VERSION% placeholders, in preparation of a release, get replaced with the actual string now. This makes sure that a tagged release is consistent. On the other hand, the first commit after a release will revert this, marking the code as "work in progress". The version checker built into geotoad.rb will notice this and issue a mild complaint.

As long as you take a release tarball, you should be safe.