Provide a long-lived download URL for all/new BombSquad releases

[Mrmaxmeier]

Hey,

efforts to package BombSquad for Linux distros (AUR, NixOS) currently run into an issue with release downloads. The current version of the game is not available in the /old/ directory, so they pull from https://files.ballistica.net/bombsquad/builds/BombSquad_Linux_${_arch}_${_version}.tar.gz. This URL goes bad after the next release, breaking package builds.

It'd be nice to have the current/new releases available both under /builds/ and /builds/old/ such that packaging scripts can use the long-lived old/.. URL. (archive/ might be a better name in this case 🙂)
This might reduce pressure on the packagers to keep their versions up-to-date but is still a good change imo.

Thanks!

[SoK05]

Offtop, but good to see you're still here! You're a modding pioneer, man.

[ritiek]

Similar issue through Lutris.

[aryan02420]

similar issue with flatpak builds https://github.com/bombsquad02420/net.froemling.bombsquad/blob/main/net.froemling.bombsquad.yml#L27-L29

[Loup-Garou911XD]

Hey,

efforts to package BombSquad for Linux distros (AUR, NixOS) currently run into an issue with release downloads. The current version of the game is not available in the /old/ directory, so they pull from https://files.ballistica.net/bombsquad/builds/BombSquad_Linux_${_arch}_${_version}.tar.gz. This URL goes bad after the next release, breaking package builds.

It'd be nice to have the current/new releases available both under /builds/ and /builds/old/ such that packaging scripts can use the long-lived old/.. URL. (archive/ might be a better name in this case 🙂) This might reduce pressure on the packagers to keep their versions up-to-date but is still a good change imo.

Thanks!

if a python script works for your case then here you go https://github.com/Loup-Garou911XD/bombsquad_server-termux/blob/main/get_latest_link.py