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The latest nightly URI is usefully named generically: http://bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/nightly/latest/bundles/ However the filenames break this: netbeans-trunk-nightly-200902040232-linux.sh could these names be changed to netbeans-trunk-nightly-latest-linux.sh with some link/redirect to: netbeans-trunk-nightly-yyyymmddhhMM-linux.sh The the following will just work: curl -C - -LO http://bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/nightly/latest/bundles/netbeans-trunk-nightly-latest-linux.sh
I`d say that this is valid also for zips so likely be fixed on the overall build level.
This wasn't requirement for the current build system, but sound like a good idea to implement. But this is certainly not the P1.