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Problem

Currently you can download the latest micromanager versions easily - but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to programmatically find the most recent nightly build because it requires knowing both the version numbre and the build information like so:

https://github.com/tlambert03/pymmcore-plus/blob/5de999d4967ff7f92bcc745a1d7f4a1fe591a73e/pymmcore_plus/install.py#L8-L15

then that needs to be regularly updated and is fragile w.r.t things like the naming scheme changing (e.g. from gamma -> 2.0.x broke that download).

Potential Solution

Have two new endpoints Windows/latest and Mac/latest that are stable names and always download the most recent nightly build.

This is probably due to fetching the size of each file individually (albeit in parallel). Cloud storage is probably not optimized for listing files in a directory either, unlike a filesystem.

Need to paginate, or generate the file list statically (e.g. with a cron job).