Re: Suggestion: Permanent link for downloading PHP.

"Shimi" <shimi@shimi.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0309121136030.1379-100000@fresh.co.il... > > Ah, cool. But that doesn't do the mirror redirection trick :) And say > someone wants to put stuff like this on his corporate network? If I put a > link to what you just gave, people will download directly from that > server, instead of from the local mirror... In my opinion if your installing on a corporate network you would want all machines to have the exact same version. If you download http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.bz2 then it might well change version numbers one day and you might not notice, causing issues with different versions config file differences etc. I prefer consistancy across servers thus in my opinion it would be better to download a versioned file in the first place. Firstly so you end up with the exact same version on all servers, and secondly so when you come to look at it in a couple of months you know exactly what version you already have downloaded and dont have to untar to see which one it is, or just re-download. ChrisB.