[wp-hackers] On Subversion and 2.5.x-alpha not being in Trunk

[Alexander Beutl]

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> I'd suggest having:
>
>        http://api.wordpress.org/current-version/1.0/
>
> That would return one line that contained just the version string, if it
> were in place today it would return: 2.5.1


I don't know if that one is new but take a look at:

http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.1/

which will return the current version in the 3rd line.
Just if this is any help  for anyone...

I would like to see a "stable"-Tag or "stable"-Branch too.
Even if this is a second line one would need to write....
Wouldn't be comlex to setup some shellscript to do it with only one call


2008/5/15 Joseph Scott <joseph at randomnetworks.com>:

>
> On May 14, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Jeremy Visser wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 14:02 -0700, Aaron D. Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> I have a lot of WordPress installs that I manage, and it would
>>> be nice to just set a cron job to "svn up" every day (or once a week,
>>> etc). There is a trac ticket asking for a stable tag like phpMyAdmin
>>> does: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3593
>>>
>>
>> I do that on a project of mine, and it's a pain in the butt to work.
>>
>> Already talked about it with Lloyd in private about 6 months ago, and we
>> were pretty conclusive that there's no way to make it easier on the
>> developers.
>>
>> Not gonna happen.
>>
>
> Short of having a stable tag I think there are other things that could be
> done to help automate things.
>
> http://api.wordpress.org/ provides a few services, like:
>
>        http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.0/
>        http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/
>
> I'd suggest having:
>
>        http://api.wordpress.org/current-version/1.0/
>
> That would return one line that contained just the version string, if it
> were in place today it would return: 2.5.1
> The version number would be a tag that could be used to checkout the source
> code from subversion.
>
> Along with that would be something like:
>
>        http://api.wordpress.org/current-branch/1.0/
>
> Which would also only return one line, that contained the current branch,
> if it were in place today it would return: 2.5
> Instead of a tag, it's a branch that could be checked out from subversion.
>
> Please don't get hung up on the names in the URLs, they were just examples.
>  Any name/URL combination will do as long as it works as expected and was
> reasonably descriptive.
>
> If you only wanted to update when a new version came out, you would query
> for the current version, svn switch to that tag, svn up and do any WP
> specific (like the database) updates that needed to happen.
>
>
> --
> Joseph Scott
> joseph at randomnetworks.com
> http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/
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