Actual binary ?

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2015-11-11 by JumJum

By uploading new binary from http://www.espruino.com/binaries/git/commits/ I'm confused by version numbers.
Most actual version based on date is 1V81.700
The one before is 1V81.705
Download you recommended is 1V81.196
Somewhere between is 1V81.751
These are not released versions, no problem. But sometimes they are helpful and at least they are worth testing to find (eventually) problems, before they make it into release.
What are these numbers giving to me ?
Which one is most actual and should be used for testing ?
How do they match to ChangeLog ?

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2015-11-11 by @gfwilliams

Check out http://www.espruino.com/binaries/git/commit_date/

The date on espruino.com/binaries/git/com­mits/ is the date at which the files were built - which is not the date that the commit was made. If I push many commits in a short period of time, the server starts building the newest commit first - which hopefully explains the issues.

In the version number 1v81.XXX, XXX is the commits since the last release - so if I have some code that I have been working on that is on a Git branch, that can unfortunately have a totally different set of numbers to the ones on the master branch.

Basically if you want to be 100% sure of the latest (and what it is):

• Go to https://github.com/espruino/Espruino
• Click on where it says Latest commit abcdef
• On the new page it'll say commit 471b8e15ff69f6eaade638b74e3e17f20a3e16b5 or similar (it also shows what that commit actually was)
• copy that number, and use it in the URL, like http://www.espruino.com/binaries/git/commits/471b8e15ff69f6eaade638b74e3e17f20a3e16b5/

Otherwise you can choose the latest from http://www.espruino.com/binaries/git/commit_date/?C=N;O=D - but it's possible you might pick up a later commit that's not on the main git branch.

I guess I should really add a symlink like http://www.espruino.com/binaries/git/latest?