On 12 April 2013 22:04, David Ham <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There are a number of fairly public things on fenicsproject.org which are
> horribly out of date:
>
> * The front page of the website has a big "Download FEniCS 1.0.0" button and
This has already been reported:
https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/fenics-web/issue/1/download-image-on-front-page-needs
> "Recent project news" from 2011
>
This is up-to-date now - some pages have just been updated and it can
take some time for the news box to sort itself out.
> * The download for Ubuntu most naturally points people through to the
> default Ubuntu packages, which are 1.0. It is only by happening to click on
> "Learn More" and adding the PPA that one would get 1.2
>
We should make it clear how to get Ubuntu and PPA versions - could you
register a bug? We should also make it clear which version a 'click'
on a link corresponds to.
Garth
> What I am actually doing is writing the FEniCS manifolds paper. The journal
> (Geoscientific Model Development) requires us to specify which version of
> the software we are documenting (1.2) and provide links. What I want to do
> is provide persistent links to version 1.2 and to the current version (with
> the intention that readers will go to the current version).
>
> In terms of the current website, I would like to be able to say:
>
> Users are encouraged to employ the current release of FEniCS. This is
> available at http://fenicsproject.org/download . Archive packages for
> version 1.2 will remain available at
> http://fenicsproject.org/download/older_releases.html
>
> Unfortunately, users going to http://fenicsproject.org/download are
> currently quite likely to end up with version 1.0.0 (which is particularly
> unfortunate in this case since it doesn't support manifolds) and the list of
> packages for 1.2 is not yet on the older releases page or (as far as I can
> see) anywhere else on the website.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> --
> Dr David Ham
> Department of Computing
> Imperial College London
>
> http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.ham
>
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