On Nov 22, 2017, at 9:56 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > On 11/22/17, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: >> >> 1. Visit https://example.com >> 2. Click Timeline (and how would my users know to do that?) >> 3. Click checkin ID. >> 4. Find and click Tarball link >> 5. Unpack the tarball >> >> Then they must do all 5 steps again every time there is a new version they >> want, > > Maybe this is just an unfortunate example. You do know that you can > download a specific version using a single wget or curl command, > right? For example: > > curl 'https://www.sqlite.org/src/tarball?uuid=trunk' -o sqlite3.tar.gz
Yes, but my users don’t know that. What’s missing are several Download links, so my users can be expected to find something useful to download on their own. There should be one: 1. …in the main nav bar, giving tip-of-trunk 2. …at the top of /timeline grabbing: 2a. the “tip” checkin if followed from /timeline, no args 2b. the tip of the named branch if given the r= parameter, as from /brlist 3. …at the top of /dir grabbing the tip of trunk And of course, I already know I can edit the /home wiki page and the skin to provide #1 today, though it would be nice if the stock skins contained these. > Prior to > that, they were doing an "apt-get install fossil" followed by a > "fossil clone" and "fossil open" - a combination which broke when we > moved to Fossil 2.0 and Debian was slow to update. Yes, that is unfortunate. I don’t regret the improvement that forced that, however. It’s much like the C11 situation: would it be nice if C11 was everywhere, so we could count on it all the time? Of course. The realities of legacy deployments don’t always allow such things. I expect you’re constrained by NDAs that prevent you from contributing materially to this discussion. The stories you could tell about the weird places SQLite must be found… Ah well. :) _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
