Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On Sunday 22 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: Both valid points, thanks. I think that the appearance of MacOSX/2.2.9/Readme is a helpful cue to anyone who's spent much time with computers, even if it doesn't actually create a hierarchy on the file system. Both that and MacOSX/2.3.7/Readme are

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-22 Thread Christian Stimming
Two minor points to keep in mind when comparing a Wiki page to a plain HTML file: Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2009 schrieb John Ralls: The wiki page would become the primary; converting it to html is easily done by opening it in the browser and saving it (or downloading it via curl). The

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-22 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 22, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: Two minor points to keep in mind when comparing a Wiki page to a plain HTML file: Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2009 schrieb John Ralls: The wiki page would become the primary; converting it to html is easily done by opening it in the

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: John, How about if you put it into the installer itself so that it pops up when they attempt to install it? There is no installer. You download the dmg (which is a disk image, like an iso), mount

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Fair enough. I'm just trying to think of how to make it available in a way that's NOT a link off to a SF page. Maybe a link to the wiki? I thought that Geert had set it up to be a hosted file (he mentioned osx_readme.phtml being missing

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 19 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Fair enough. I'm just trying to think of how to make it available in a way that's NOT a link off to a SF page. Maybe a link to the wiki? I thought that Geert had set it up to be a hosted file

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Fair enough. I'm just trying to think of how to make it available in a way that's NOT a link off to a SF page. Maybe a link to the wiki? I

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 19 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: The wiki page would become the primary; converting it to html is easily done by opening it in the browser and saving it (or downloading it via curl). Not a significant change in effort, really. It has the advantage that it could be easily

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-19 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: Personally I think it would be better in the long run if the files were referring to the release they are written for, so for example: MacOSX/Readme/2.2.9 and MacOSX/Readme/2.3.7 I don't have experience with the SF file manager (I setup

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-18 Thread Derek Atkins
John, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: I can live with any of those options as long as the result is easy for the impatient new user to find and read the file. Yes, it's true that the file is additional release notes, but users generally don't read release notes, and I want the users

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-18 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2009 schrieb Derek Atkins: John, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: I can live with any of those options as long as the result is easy for the impatient new user to find and read the file. Yes, it's true that the file is additional release notes, but users

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-18 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: John, How about if you put it into the installer itself so that it pops up when they attempt to install it? There is no installer. You download the dmg (which is a disk image, like an iso), mount it (most browsers will do that

Website download section: linux or not linux ?

2009-11-16 Thread Geert Janssens
My changes to the website regarding a download section are nearly done. My previous thread left some unanswered questions. Due to the length of the thread, these questions risk being lost, so I decided to create a new thread for each of them. Question 1. Linux in the downloads on the front

Website download section: release timing ?

2009-11-16 Thread Geert Janssens
My changes to the website regarding a download section are nearly done. My previous thread left some unanswered questions. Due to the length of the thread, these questions risk being lost, so I decided to create a new thread for each of them. Question 3. Release timing While setting up the

Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-16 Thread Geert Janssens
My changes to the website regarding a download section are nearly done. My previous thread left some unanswered questions. Due to the length of the thread, these questions risk being lost, so I decided to create a new thread for each of them. Question 2. Where to fetch the Mac OS X Readme file

Re: Website download section: release timing ?

2009-11-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Zitat von Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be: Question 3. Release timing While setting up the download block on the front page, I presumed that a new stable release is always made available for the three major platforms at the same time. That's what the block also indicates: it states in

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Zitat von Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be: Question 2. Where to fetch the Mac OS X Readme file ? Different solutions I see: * Leave it as is, just live with the redirect. * Setup a Release notes section in wiki, store all release relevant information (release notes, changelog, readmes)

Re: Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

2009-11-16 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:19 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: ... Question 2. Where to fetch the Mac OS X Readme file ? This file is currently hosted on sourceforge and the www.gnucash.org website links to it there. However, due to the sourceforge website works, it will first show a download page

Re: Website download section

2009-11-14 Thread Derek Atkins
John, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: The magic link is: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash%20OSX%20Readme.html That will magically find the best (or user's default, if he's got a sourceforge account and has it set up) mirror and doesn't flash the mirror

Re: Website download section

2009-11-14 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 14, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: Why do we have separate per-release Readme files? I can understand a different readme for 2.2 vs. 2.3, and a CHANGELOG per release, but why a full separate readme per package? That seems overkill to me. Because Gnucash on OSX is

Re: Website download section

2009-11-14 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: On Nov 14, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: Why do we have separate per-release Readme files? I can understand a different readme for 2.2 vs. 2.3, and a CHANGELOG per release, but why a full separate readme per package? That seems overkill to

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 12 November 2009, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: The magic link is: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash%20OSX%20Read me .html That will magically find the best (or user's default, if he's got a sourceforge

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread Tim M
Geert, I do see what you are saying about the links. However, to be honest I don't think the download links should be bypassing the download screen of Sourceforge anyway, especially for the binaries and source code. The HTML Readme is a tiny file on the other hand, so IMO it's not a big deal if

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 13 November 2009, Tim M wrote: Geert, I do see what you are saying about the links. However, to be honest I don't think the download links should be bypassing the download screen of Sourceforge anyway, especially for the binaries and source code. The HTML Readme is a tiny file on

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread tim
-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Website download section Sent: Nov 13, 2009 7:43 AM On Friday 13 November 2009, Tim M wrote: Geert, I do see what you are saying about the links. However, to be honest I don't think the download links should be bypassing the download screen of Sourceforge anyway

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread Geert Janssens
window, yes. It made no difference indeed. Geert --Original Message-- From: Geert Janssens Sender: gnucash-devel-boun...@gnucash.org To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Website download section Sent: Nov 13, 2009 7:43 AM On Friday 13 November 2009, Tim M wrote: Geert, I do

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread tim
BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:34:28 To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Website download section On Friday 13 November 2009, t...@filmchicago.org wrote: For the readme have you tried seeing what happens if you have

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread tim
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:34:28 To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Website download section On Friday 13 November 2009, t...@filmchicago.org wrote: For the readme

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009, Geert Janssens wrote: Sourceforge is working again, so I tested these new links. They work fine, but there is some weirdness going on with the mirror screen. When I click on a link on my new download page, I

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 13 November 2009, t...@filmchicago.org wrote: The php option you could try is to have the link initially link to a local page which would then redirect the user with the php function: ?php header('Location: http://filelink'); exit; ? Note that the header function must be used

Re: Website download section

2009-11-13 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 13 November 2009, John Ralls wrote: I got the same results. Interestingly, if I copy the contents of your page into a file and display the file in Firefox, I don't get the redirect screen either. That suggests that it's neither cookie magic (since the only cookies it can see with

Re: Website download section

2009-11-12 Thread tim
Looks nice! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:18:51 To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Website download section I have made some progress with my proposals. To see

Re: Website download section

2009-11-12 Thread Stephen R. Besch
Small suggestions: 1) List Linux download first. Putting Windows first and prominent suggests that this is a windows development effort with a port to linux, rather than the other way around. 2) Add svn address (http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk) to the getting GnuCash part of the

Re: Website download section

2009-11-12 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: I have made some progress with my proposals. To see the intermediate result, surf to: http://www.kobaltwit.be/gnucash/index.phtml (Just ignore the php safe mode warnings. They are caused by my hosting provider but not relevant for the changes

Re: Website download section

2009-11-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 12 November 2009, Stephen R. Besch wrote: Small suggestions: 1) List Linux download first. Putting Windows first and prominent suggests that this is a windows development effort with a port to linux, rather than the other way around. Yes, I did have the same impression. However,

Re: Website download section

2009-11-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 12 November 2009, Geert Janssens wrote: snip What I have not done yet: * Fix the release news items I have made some changes to the 2.3.7 news item: * include a very visible warning box * added a similar box to inform users about the latest stable release. The icons from both

Re: Website download section

2009-11-12 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens: To see the intermediate result, surf to: http://www.kobaltwit.be/gnucash/index.phtml Looks very good! * Added a new page for downloading. (...) - direct one-click links to the installers we have available, - information on how to

Re: Website download section

2009-11-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 12 November 2009, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens: * The original site had links to a USA and a European sourcecode-only mirror (for the lack of a better word). I have added those to the source code section on the download