Hi Rocco,
Those are all excellent points. Since I don't have much of a sensible
rebuttal (or, really, any reason not to continue hosting things at
sourceforge), I've uploaded the new version there as well:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rdkit/files/rdkit/Q1_2016
I'll put some thought into clearing up the documentation and making the
github downloads easier to find.
Best,
-greg
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Rocco Moretti <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Greg Landrum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> The release and binary files are on the github release page:
>> *https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/releases/tag/Release_2016_03_1
>> <https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/releases/tag/Release_2016_03_1>*
>> Unless there's serious demand for it, I do not plan to duplicate these on
>> the sourceforge download page.
>>
>
> One concern I might have is the discoverability of the GitHub release
> page. The SourceForge page is nicely titled "RDKit download" and is still
> in the top few hits on both the Google and Bing searches for rdkit. The
> SourceForge page does indicate that things have moved to GitHub, which but
> it isn't as convenient as the big green download button there. Particularly
> as the link is to the https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit front page, and not
> to the releases. Also, it isn't really clear where to download the release
> version sources from the GitHub README - it's somewhat hidden under an
> entry nominally about Windows binaries.
>
> The http://www.rdkit.org/ site also prominently lists the SourceForge
> download page, but apparently doesn't directly link the GitHub one. (Or,
> for that matter, indicate that SourceForge is deprecated in favor of
> GitHub.) The online documentation (e.g.
> http://www.rdkit.org/docs/Install.html) also doesn't make the download
> location all that clear. It's there, but it's somewhat buried, and the
> section with the wget command to fetch the source gives little indication
> of how to find out which filenames are valid. Something like an "Obtaining
> RDKit" section might be helpful.
>
> Adding the new release to SourceForge is probably not necessary, but you
> may want to make clearer pointers to the GitHub releases page for those
> approaching things with a "I just want to download the latest release"
> mindset.
>
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