[wp-hackers] SVN symlink for stable version

[Lloyd Budd]

On Jan 20, 2008 5:00 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at joostdevalk.nl> wrote:
>
> Might be a stupid question, but is there a way to download the latest
> stable version without "knowing" what the latest stable version is?
> I'd like to be able to do

It seems like it might be better for us all to focus on contributing to
Integrate Automatic Upgrade
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5560


Link to discussion from last:
[wp-hackers] SVN: /branches/stable/
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-September/008828.html

The main points against seemed to be:

Ryan & Peter:
"svn copying to the same branch over-and-over doesn't work that well
because moves and deletes are not accounted for.  We might be able to
svn merge but that can get messy."

 Matt:
At the end of the day, you probably don't want fully automatic
upgrading as you don't know if the "stable" release of 2.1 (or 2.0) is
going to break something you have.

 My best guess would be a well-scripted way to SVN SWITCH several
installs would be the safest.



Hope that helps,
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