Re: How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2015-02-18 Thread David P. Caldwell
Konstantin, Thanks so much for explaining the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. I've implemented the parsing which is working fine at the moment, but I share your concerns about it. What wasn't clear to me was -- is there any downside to the RDF-based approach? Would that be better in

Re: How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2014-09-05 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2014-09-04 22:46 GMT+04:00 Daniel Mikusa : > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:48 PM, David P. Caldwell < > da...@code.davidpcaldwell.com> wrote: > >> I have a small program that downloads and installs an arbitrary >> version of Tomcat, using the API provided by Apache to select the >> proper mirror, and so

Re: How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2014-09-05 Thread Mark Thomas
On 05/09/2014 21:26, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 9/4/14 2:31 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 04/09/2014 19:18, Geoff Meakin wrote: >>> The current version mirrors link might help you eg: >>> >>> http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/ > >>> >> There are times

Re: How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2014-09-05 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 9/4/14 2:31 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 04/09/2014 19:18, Geoff Meakin wrote: >> The current version mirrors link might help you eg: >> >> http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/ > >> > There are times (normally

Re: How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:48 PM, David P. Caldwell < da...@code.davidpcaldwell.com> wrote: > I have a small program that downloads and installs an arbitrary > version of Tomcat, using the API provided by Apache to select the > proper mirror, and so forth. > > The script currently takes the Tomcat v

Re: How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2014-09-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/09/2014 19:18, Geoff Meakin wrote: > The current version mirrors link might help you eg: > > http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/ There are times (normally just after a release) when multiple versions will show up there. Mark > > > > Sent from my iPhone >

Re: How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2014-09-04 Thread Geoff Meakin
The current version mirrors link might help you eg: http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/ Sent from my iPhone > On 4 Sep 2014, at 18:48, "David P. Caldwell" > wrote: > > I have a small program that downloads and installs an arbitrary > version of Tomcat, using th

How a script can determine latest version of Tomcat

2014-09-04 Thread David P. Caldwell
I have a small program that downloads and installs an arbitrary version of Tomcat, using the API provided by Apache to select the proper mirror, and so forth. The script currently takes the Tomcat version as an argument. My script provides a default (which in my case is the latest version of Tomca