[squeak-dev] Please make http://ftp.squeak.org/current_stable/ redirect to http://ftp.squeak.org/4.5/ (is 4.4 currently))

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Jul 13 14:17:15 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 09:57:04AM -0400, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> I'm only partially grokking this as I'm travelling. You're not being
> igored. I'll read this in depth in a day or two. If this doesn't concern me
> of the homepage, then please ignore this post.
> 
> Chris

Thanks Chris,

Nothing urgent here, just some suggestions.

Dave

> 
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 6:41 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 12-07-2014, at 11:27 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be good to have the "Downloads" tab provide links to the
> > Squeak
> > > all-in-one for the convenient quick start download, to the current_stable
> > > directory for images, to the current_development directory for bleeding
> > edge,
> > > and to squeakvm.org for VMs? That would be accompanied by a brief
> > explanation
> > > of what these things are (older squeak.org sites had this, so we can
> > probably
> > > find the text). New users would be guided to download the all-in-one to
> > > get started quickly, but they would at least be starting out with an idea
> > > of what is in that all-in-one. And people who want to download a stable
> > > image would find a link to it from the downloads page.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > I suggest that the front page ???Download??? column should have the mentions
> > of the Documentation and Downloads pages made into links, for a start. It
> > might be smart to relabel the big button to ???Download AllInOne??? to be
> > really clear.
> >
> > The actual Downloads page ought to reiterate the value of the AllInOne for
> > general use on recent x86 hardware and then explain the alternatives. It
> > would be nice to have a simple zip of the 4.5 final & a recent trunk and
> > maybe 4.4 image/changes files and of course an explanation that you need
> > the sources zipfile too. Obviously we need pointers to relevant VM download
> > & install pages.
> >
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > Useful random insult:- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you get
> > change back.
> >
> >
> >
> >

> 



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