Consider Link to point "latest" branch to the most current Zip download #516

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1. kajukenbo commented on Mar 6, 2023

   

   kajukenbo

   on Mar 6, 2023

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   Example of how I pull and extract the "latest" Mono Linear Static otf fonts now, in case it is of use to anyone

   cd $HOME/Downloads/
   echo "Checking for Recursive Font and version"
   rm -f latest
   
   until [ -s latest ]
   do
       curl -LO https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/releases/latest
   done
   
   VER=$(grep release $HOME/Downloads/latest | awk -F\" '/src=/ { print $(NF-1) }' | awk -F\/ '{ print $NF }' | sed 's/^v//' )
   echo "Current Recursive version seems to be ${VER}"
   FONTS=$HOME/Downloads/ArrowType-Recursive-${VER}
   if [ ! -d ${FONTS} ]
   then
       cd $HOME/Downloads/
       echo "Trying to download font ArrowType-Recursive-${VER}.zip"
       curl -LO  https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/releases/download/v${VER}/ArrowType-Recursive-${VER}.zip
       echo "Attempting archive extraction"
       unzip -u ArrowType-Recursive-${VER}.zip
   fi
   
   cd ${FONTS}
   
   if [ ! -d /usr/share/fonts/opentype/recursive ]
   then
       sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/opentype/recursive
       find ${FONTS} -type f -name "*MonoLnrSt*otf" -exec sudo cp -va {} /usr/share/fonts/opentype/recursive \;
       find ${FONTS} -type f -name "LICENSE.txt" -exec sudo cp -va {} /usr/share/fonts/opentype/recursive \;
       sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/share/fonts/opentype/recursive
       sudo fc-cache -f
   else
       du -sh /usr/share/fonts/opentype/recursive
   fi
   
2. arrowtype commented on Mar 17, 2023

   

   arrowtype

   on Mar 17, 2023

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   Hey @kajukenbo, thanks for taking time to share this insight!

   My main reason for including the version number in the zip download is to help make people aware of different versions they may have downloaded. I wish GitHub would have some kind of a URL that could easily be used to point to the main zip download of the latest release, but I don’t think they do...

   I may adjust my releases to use a consistent zip folder naming scheme, as it is annoying to have to manually update the font minisite when I make a new release.

   I’ll leave this open as a reminder to probably change the zip naming in the future.