Having the link on the front page would lead to people downloading the source without reading the documentation. That is very bad as you have to understand some terminology before trying to do something with the source. That's my opinion.
Regards Christian Am 29.04.2013 22:06, schrieb Raistmer the Sorcerer: > Thanks for link,, but I already got one via private E-mail to SETI dev. > But, such reply assumes that all consider normal to have link to > sources in one of sub-pages and not on front page? Well, out of > questions then, sorry for inconvience... :/ > > > > Понедельник, 29 апреля 2013, 22:02 +02:00 от Christian Beer > <[email protected]>: > > The links to the source are here: > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCodeGit (This page is linked > to from several places!). Please note that BOINC changed to git > version > control earlier this year and since 2 months the boinc-v2 > repository is > the correct place. > > If you want to view the source online you may find > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/boinc-v2 helpfull. > > Regards > Christian > > Am 29.04.2013 21:50, schrieb Raistmer the Sorcerer: > > I'm trying to implement Charlie Fenton suggestions about SETI > OpenCL apps and rebuild versus latest BOINC API. > > > > Well, update via TortoiseSVN can give only last year revision. > Not too nice but OK, time to learn new ways. > > But, looking for help on BOINC main page for some instructions > and link for BOINC sources. No links to sources. > > Links to binaries, links to statistics, links to message boards > and so on and so forth... but no link to sources! > > it's direct violation of GNU license linked at the bottom of > page, not? > > Or should I E-mail one of BOINC devs each time I will need link > to source? > > > > IMO such front page design is flaw that needs attention. Open > source project should not hide link to its sources but advertise > it everywhere it can. > > And even better if link would come with some instructions how to > obtain sources (archived tree of last stable release for example?). > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > boinc_dev mailing list > > [email protected] > <sentmsg?compose&[email protected]> > > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > <sentmsg?compose&[email protected]> > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
