Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

Andrew Hammond escribió:
> On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <pguser(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond
> ><andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given
> >> major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing
> >> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to
> >connect to ftp
> >> (which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting
> >> hammered or something?) and doing the parsing that? Both approaches
> >> feel quite awkward to me.
> >
> >Use wget to download via HTTP (added recently). Probably wise to add a
> >couple mirrors in your script.
>
> I'm not asking how to download stuff. I'm asking how to figure out the
> current release number for a given major.minor. I thought that was
> clear in my original post, but I guess not. For example, how do I
> determine (programmatically) the lastest version of 8.1.

Maybe get configure.in from CVS:
cvs log configure.in
and parse the "symbolic names" list?

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