Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#2807 closed enhancement (fixed)
Simplify download options for MS Windows
| Reported by: | wenzeslaus | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 7.0.4 |
| Component: | Website | Version: | 7.0.1 |
| Keywords: | download, user-friendly, links, WinGRASS | Cc: | |
| CPU: | Unspecified | Platform: | MSWindows 8 |
Description
When downloading GRASS GIS for MS Windows, from the GRASS GIS main page, user can go to Download GRASS GIS for MS-Windows where there is a nice table where one can easily find the download link for the latest stable release (it's first). However, instead of downloading, user is taken to Index of /grass70/binary/mswindows/native page where there is a list of several links.
The links are past releases, MD5 sums and during RC period also RCs. The text below doesn't explain any explanation of that. I don't think that RCs should be presented together with stable releases without explanation. Furthermore, I don't think that common Windows users care about MD5 sums (although they are the ones who really should).
I suggests to replace the bold download link at the GRASS download for Windows website by a direct link to the latest release. It would be of course nice if there could be some general link (e.g. WinGRASS-stable-Setup.exe) which would get redirected to the actual file (e.g. WinGRASS-7.0.2-1-Setup.exe).
Under the table there could a be a sentence "See advanced options for 7.0, 6.4 and 7.1." This would be for the advanced users which want more information, MD5 sums, RCs, or older releases.
Trac related: 7.0.2 is now missing in the Version options and also MSWindows 10 under Platform; perhaps a general MSWindows would be better.
I think Martin updated the page, can you please check?