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  • From: Ryan Schmidt <freetds-2014 AT ryandesign.com>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [freetds] What is the latest stable release of freetds?
  • Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 19:30:49 -0500

Hello, I'm a developer with the MacPorts project. We have a package for
freetds in MacPorts, currently at version 0.92.405. We updated to this
version on 2012-11-12. We did this based on the fact that 0.92.405 is the
largest version number listed at ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/stable/ .
No further changes have occurred in the MacPorts freetds package since then.


A few days ago it was brought to our attention that 0.92.405 is 1.5 years old
and that many newer stable versions have been released since then, numbered
in the 0.91 series.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43700


Confusion regarding freetds version numbering and determining what the latest
stable version is has been expressed before:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2013q4/028733.html

The concern raised in that thread -- that the freetds-stable.tgz file linked
from the freetds.org homepage is version 0.91 from 2011 and many newer
versions have appeared in the stable ftp directory in the years since then --
remains unresolved. FreeCode also lists 0.91 as the latest stable version of
freetds:

http://freecode.com/projects/freetds


I would like to know:

* What is the latest stable version number today, to which we should update
our MacPorts package?

* How should MacPorts programmatically determine what the latest stable
version number is? In other words, what is the URL of a web page whose
contents we can download and apply a regular expression to determine the
latest stable version number?

Thank you.





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