How can be downloaded the latest version?

[johnfound]

I've discovered that on https://github.com/resilar/sqleet/releases/latest is a page about the latest version of SQLeet, but is there an URL to download directly the amalgamation source of the latest version?

[resilar]

Direct link to the latest amalgamation .zip/.tar.gz package of sqleet? No, I don't think GitHub supports that. I agree that this could be an useful feature and easy to implement using HTTP redirects. I'm not aware of any URL shortening/redirection service that is free and does not suck, so implementation is not going to happen anytime soon¹.

Do you have a specific use case in mind?

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(1) sqleet is steadily reaching a state where a major version number increment to v1.x.y is justified in terms of stability and features. I'm considering building a (minimal) web page for sqleet and releasing it at the same time with version 1.x.y. This obviously then allows providing a direct link to the amalgamation packages.

[johnfound]

Well, I have created some kind of workaround. The idea is to obtain the latest amalgamation source:

  echo "Downloading latest SQLeet master branch archive..."
  { wget -q -O sqleet.zip https://github.com/resilar/sqleet/archive/master.zip; unzip -q sqleet.zip; rm sqleet.zip; } || { echo >&2 "Error: Can't download SQLeet sources."; exit 2;}
  cd ./sqleet-master
  echo "Building the amalgamation sqlite3.c ..."
  script/amalgamate.sh < ./sqleet.c > ../sqlite3.c
  cd ..
  rm -rf ./sqleet-master/ &

Hope this can be useful for someone.

EDIT: Better use .tar.gz instead of .zip:

  echo "Downloading latest SQLeet master branch archive..."
  { wget -q -O - https://github.com/resilar/sqleet/archive/master.tar.gz | tar -xz 2> /dev/null; } || { echo >&2 "Error: Can't download SQLeet sources."; exit 2;}
  cd ./sqleet-master
  echo "Building the amalgamation sqlite3.c ..."
  script/amalgamate.sh < ./sqleet.c > ../sqlite3.c
  cd ..
  rm -rf ./sqleet-master/ &

[resilar]

Yeah, the lack of direct links is easy to overcome with shell scripting. Given git and a few extra commands, it is doable to fetch & build the latest release's amalgamation based on git tags.

Offering static links to the latest release amalgamations is still a worthwhile goal, so let's keep this issue open.