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Subject: Re: The Nixpkgs Monitor
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:44:17 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 04:35:14PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> And what do we do for URIs in http:// or mirror://?
>
> What is the particular problem? For ffmpeg, for instance, the uri reads
>       (uri (string-append "http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-"
>                            version ".tar.bz2"))
> which gets expanded into "http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.1.1.tar=
.bz2".
>
> One could try the following:
> - Remove potentially trailing ".bz2" (to remove digits).
> - Look for a regular expression "([:digits:].)*["digits:]".
>   If there is only one, this is likely to be the version; try "++" everyw=
here
>   (in a way that would give "2.1.2", "2.2.0", "3.0.0" in our case, and ma=
ybe
>   the same ones without the trailing ".0"); replace them in the string and
>   check whether they exist.

Well indeed, that sounds like a workable plan.  We should try it.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.