Link to the latest stable release of nginx.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:14:42PM +0200, Jan Wrobel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can you put a symbolic link in http://nginx.org/download/ that would
> point to the latest stable release of nginx and that would be updated
> with each release?
> 
> Something like: http://nginx.org/download/nginx-current.tar.gz?
> 
> It would help with automating the process of compiling the latest nginx.
> 
> Also, there is a lot of documentation on the web that explains how to
> get and compile nginx from sources and all these docs become obsolete
> over time because they point to the nginx that was available during
> the time of writing the doc.

I don't like this aproach as it makes impossible to determine 
version from a downloaded file name, and makes it impossible to 
determine what will be overridden on archive extraction without 
looking into archive contents.  And one would need a version 
number for automated processing anyway, as it's embedded into 
directory structure in release archives.

Various "latest" nginx versions are listed here:

http://nginx.org/en/download.html

It's believed to be enough for most uses.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.com/support.html