Jabref: FR: link to the latest jabref-4.0.*.jar

[jonasstein]

could you provide a link / symlink to the latest jabref-4.0.*.jar, please?
It would be very nice, if users can use a bash script like
UpdateJabref.sh

#!/bin/bash
wget https://builds.jabref.org/master/JabRef-4.0.0-dev--snapshot--latest.jar

which fetches the latest .jar.
Upstream has just to provide https://builds.jabref.org/master/JabRef-4.0.0-dev--snapshot--latest.jar which links to https://builds.jabref.org/master/JabRef-4.0.0-dev--snapshot--2017-06-29--master--7e50e84a1.jar and so on

[koppor]

The script to modify is upload-to-builds.jabref.org.sh. Do you have an idea how to implement that using sftp commands?

[Siedlerchr]

Maybe this can be done by providing a symlink?
I have no idea how to code that, but I think this could work

Am 30.06.2017 10:32 vorm. schrieb "Oliver Kopp" [e-mail]:

The script to modify is upload-to-builds.jabref.org.sh
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/scripts/upload-to-builds.jabref.org.sh.
Do you have an idea how to implement that using sftp commands?

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[koppor]

Sure, but the target of the symblink changes at each update. And AFAIK, it
is not possible to use "wildcard symlinks".

Am 30.06.2017 11:42 schrieb "Christoph" [e-mail]:

Maybe this can be done by providing a symlink?
I have no idea how to code that, but I think this could work

Am 30.06.2017 10:32 vorm. schrieb "Oliver Kopp" <[email protected]

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The script to modify is upload-to-builds.jabref.org.sh
upload-to-builds.jabref.org.sh>.
Do you have an idea how to implement that using sftp commands?

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[tobiasdiez]

Maybe we should just use the install4j auto updater for the development version. I think this really makes sense since we get quite a lot of bug reports recently that are already fixed in master.

[jonasstein]

@koppor https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10626120/is-it-possible-to-create-a-symlink-to-the-latest-file-in-a-directory

[koppor]

Implemented via https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/commit/2ec520fd05523f5c3d7ad9b355e77a93a0a1d99a. Not using bash as the builds are done at CircleCI (see https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/CI) and I did not want to install and maintain icrond.

http://builds.jabref.org/master/JabRef--master--latest.jar now always links to the latest file.

[tobiasdiez]

@koppor should we also put the link on the main homepage?