I think there is going to be no good order for that page. One thing that would make things easier is if there was some platform detection, and then there was a link at the top of the page for the detected platform. If anyone did the work to add that support to our Plone download page, I would definitely support that change.
.hc On Sep 30, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Scott R. Looney wrote: > i think moving it to the bottom or renaming the source code link is a good > idea. maybe just rename the source link to 'Get PD Source Code For All > Platforms'. the gray colored 'Source tarball' can be missed if you're in a > hurry. > > scott > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Joel Matthys <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I totally understand the political argument for placing src first. I > guess the debate comes down to how far we want to go to make things easier > for new users. To me, this seems like a move that may help avoid confusion > and frustration among new users, a very important demographic for the future > of the project, and it doesn't seem like it would be a violation of our FOSS > philosophy. > > On the other hand, I *don't* support the idea of putting all of the "major" > platforms at the top. Start with BSD, by all means. For me, it's just the > phrase "all platforms" at the top of the page that caused the confusion. > > Joel > > > > On 09/30/2012 10:20 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > On 09/30/2012 01:36 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote: > If the proposed change means that I can save five or more minutes then > I fully support moving the source code download to the bottom of the > page > so which one should be first? bsd? > > (personally i prefer src as first entry for political reasons; otoh, a > system like on sourceforge, where the top-download is determined based > on the client's OS might be most helpful; however, i don't know how to > implement that in the current framework) > > fmsar > IOhannes > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
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