On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2009/04/20 5:50 AM Dave Post wrote:
On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
When you click on "I want to download OpenOffice.org" on the home
page of www.openoffice.org it auto-detects the operating system
you are using. I get the following:
Download now!
Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 for Mac OSX Intel in US
English
This is true; however, clicking that option produces an error
message because the site doesn't have 3..0.1 for OSX.
When I click it the download for OO.o 3.0.1 begins.
One is directed then to a different page, which gives the
impression that 2.4.0 is the latest version for OSX.
You must be using language and/or operating system for which the
Quality Assurance process has not been completed.
Apparently so. I need US English, OSX 10.5.6, PPC. But the process
starts off saying "Download now! Start downloading OpenOffice.org
3.0.1 for Mac OSX PPC in US English" and then gives an error. That's a
bug.
Worse, there's no indication of which OSX versions 2.4.0 is
compatible with (turns out this is 10.4 and 10.5)
That is what the System Requirements page is for. It seems some
people do not bother to check. That is the first thing I look at,
especially if I am using older hardware.
But there's no link to the Systems Requirements page on the page the
user is redirected to (http://download.openoffice.org/other.html).
Furthermore, clicking the link for one's platform starts an immediate
download instead of going next to a page where one might determine
that 2.4.0 won't run on pre-10.4 versions of OSX. Both of these
problems could be corrected merely by adding something like "(10.4+)"
to the labels for the OSX columns.
Dave
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