Re: vile source links

[Wayne Cuddy]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:42:01PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 06:20:40PM +0000, Wayne Cuddy via discussions 
> concerning the vile text editor wrote:
> > On the vile download page:
> > 
> > https://www.invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html#download
> > 
> > The links for the source downloads:
> > 
> > https://www.invisible-island.net/archives/vile/vile.tar.gz
> > 
> > https://www.invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/vile.tar.gz
> > 
> > These both seem to point to the older 9.8 release instead of 9.8w. Is
> > this intentional?
> 
> sort of (the versioning with letter suffixes seems to be acceptable to
> everyone -- though I recall quite a while ago a packager refusing to
> do anything with vile unless it ended ".0" -- and I've seen no real
> need recently for a "stable release").
> 
> "current" is where you should look:
> 
> https://invisible-island.net/datafiles/current/vile.tar.gz
> https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile.tar.gz
> https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/
>

I totally ignored those links for some reason. Perhaps because they are
suffixed with (for installers).

I'll make a note of that.

Thanks.