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Request #70946 Please provide downloads for PHP-latest
Submitted: 2015-11-20 10:25 UTC Modified: 2016-04-19 17:11 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (50.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: jan dot mueller at razorfish dot de Assigned: aharvey (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: irrelevant
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-11-20 10:25 UTC] jan dot mueller at razorfish dot de 
Description:
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Hey *

For people which like to compile their own version of PHP, it would be awesome to be able to automatically download the latest PHP release of a specific Major Version.

For example:

- php-latest.tar.xz -> The latest stable release of PHP
- php-5.6-latest.tar.xz -> The latest stable release of PHP 5.6
- php-5.5-latest.tar.xz -> The latest stable release of PHP 5.5

and so on. 

This would help people which use automated deployments to be sure to obtain the latest release of $which-php-version-they-need and compile it directly.

To come up with a less generic usage:
We are able to automatically deploy new Jenkins Instances if there is a need for. If this Jenkins instance needs to run/compile/test PHP, we’d like to provide the PHP version delivered from the Distro and the latest PHP release of the supported versions. This allows us to test our software accordingly. If we would be able to download $release-latest.tar.xz this would simplify the process :)

Cheers,
Jan

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 [2015-11-20 11:42 UTC] salathe@php.net
-Package: *General Issues +Package: Website problem
 [2015-11-20 11:42 UTC] salathe@php.net 
We already have this for major versions (4 and 5), through links like http://php.net/get/php-5-LATEST.tar.xz/from/this/mirror

That piece of code could be expanded to also support no version number, and major.minor (and PHP 7, looking forward).

Starting point: https://github.com/php/web-php/blob/a1bfe9/error.php#L140-L146
 [2016-03-21 14:07 UTC] jan-php at aurka dot com 
I’ve added the functionality mentioned in Comment #1 for PHP7-LATEST.
 [2016-04-19 12:10 UTC] jan dot mueller at razorfish dot de 
Can I do something to get this into `master`?
 [2016-04-19 17:11 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: aharvey
 [2016-04-19 17:11 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
Guessing it slipped through the cracks; sorry! I've merged your PR — thanks for submitting it!
 
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