Konrad Hofbauer wrote:

Would it not make more sense to announce new stable/rc releases to the users and announcement lists AFTER the major binary installers are available (and the website updated)?
A fair proportion of the LyX users don't use Windows and are sufficiently technically orientated to understand what source code is. Maybe a short explanation for the others would be a good idea. Something along the lines of:

"Source code files are the raw files that programmers use. If you are not used to compiling source code or don't know what source code is, you almost certainly need the 'binary files'. Binary files have to be prepared by volunteers and usually appear on the site a few days after the release of the source code files. The binary files are normal programs that can be run directly on a computer."

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