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Re:Wintersmith – a flexible static site generator by stevekemp on Monday May 27, 2013 @02:57PM (#5776007)
Hard to draw ASCII here, but imagine a symlink from "/js/jquery.js" pointing to "/js/jquery-1.2.3.js".

A good application will write output that has a literal copy of the numbered version, and a symlink point to it.

Bad applications either ignore symlinks entirely, or change them to duplicate copies of files. (Which can be bad if you're considering a large file such as foo-latest-release.tar.gz.)

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Re:Wintersmith – a flexible static site generator by skrebbel on Monday May 27, 2013 @03:41PM (#5776228)
> Hard to draw ASCII here,

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    |__| ____    __| _/____   _____/  |_  __  _  _|__|/  |_|  |__  
    |  |/    \  / __ |/ __ \ /    \   __\ \ \/ \/ /  \   __\  |  \ 
    |  |   |  \/ /_/ \  ___/|   |  \  |    \     /|  ||  | |   Y  \
    |__|___|  /\____ |\___  >___|  /__|     \/\_/ |__||__| |___|  /
            \/      \/    \/     \/                             \/ 
       _____                                             
      /  |  |    _________________    ____  ____   ______
     /   |  |_  /  ___/\____ \__  \ _/ ___\/ __ \ /  ___/
    /    ^   /  \___ \ |  |_> > __ \\  \__\  ___/ \___ \ 
    \____   |  /____  >|   __(____  /\___  >___  >____  >
         |__|       \/ |__|       \/     \/    \/     \/
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