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by rakoo 1236 days ago
Yes but the original question is interesting: how do you make sure you're using the latest one ?

You could use the upstream URL, but that'd be a privacy issue.

You could proxy the upstream file, but that rules out static serving.

Maybe use a Makefile that fetches the last version and uses it ?

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>Yes but the original question is interesting: how do you make sure you're using the latest one ?

You don't, because you're rendering a simple html page, and whatever minor changes are in the new version are largely irrelevant.

> Maybe use a Makefile that fetches the last version and uses it ?

That would be a package manager lol.

It does 80% of the job of a package manager with 20% of the complexity, I find that acceptable