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Re: Any idea how to write watch file for codeplex hosted sources?



On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:40:11PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > I have spent some time into writing a watch file for
> > > 
> > >     https://csb.codeplex.com/releases/
> > > 
> > > but failed and some research on mailing lists revealed some other
> > > failures.  Any idea whether a clever mangling might help anyway?
> > No, as you can't get a direct link to sources without JavaScript at all.
> > All you can get is a list of name-version strings with links to individual
> > download pages, and that won't help uscan.
> 
> Sorry, but that's not true.  The source of the https response above
> contains
> 
>     https://csb.codeplex.com/downloads/get/466454
> 
> as direct link and it delivers the tarball in question after some
> seconds of delay.
That's JS.

> The line of html code that contains this link also
> contains the version number as link content so finally some mangling
> should work.
That's JS too.

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