This has also happened to me on a couple of occasions. They saw that it was for all platforms and so downloaded it, regardless of operating system
On 29 September 2012 22:24, Joel Matthys <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question about the download page at puredata.info. Is there a > special reason that the source tarball is listed first in the file list? > > Would it offend our FOSS sensibilities to move the source package to the > bottom of the download list? It seems unusual to me to see the source listed > first. > > I use Pd with my students, many of them undergraduates with no understanding > of the difference between source and binary. When I assign students to > download and install the Pd binary, despite my explicit warnings, invariably > a few of them will grab the source, since it's at the top of the page and > says "all platforms." > > (In the most recent incident, a student downloaded the source, and, unsure > how to proceed, asked the university IT department, who told him "just to > open it in Adobe.") :-) > > Joel > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- ============================ [email protected] http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
