------- Additional Comments From dave at boost-consulting dot com 2005-05-22 03:11 ------- Subject: Re: Download > Releases doesn't take me to appropriate info
"gerald at pfeifer dot com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ------- Additional Comments From gerald at pfeifer dot com 2005-05-21 23:24 > ------- > I installed a patch which makes "Download" a section of its own on the > "Releases" page and directly link to that section from the navigation bar. > > (This will take up to 24 hours to become active on the production server.) > > If this is not sufficient, we could consider creating a download page of > its own, though this would add yet another level of indirection in many > cases. > > Having a selectable list of releases which lead to a download site for > that *particular* release seems beyond what we can do with acceptable > effort. We'd have to do quite some scripting and regularily check every > mirror site for every release, but not all mirrors are reachable from > everywhere and always. I'm not advocating that, neccessarily. However, when a table of linked release names dominates the downloads page and *doesn't* lead to downloadable releases, then there's a major usability problem. It might be enough to eliminate or de-emphasize the table. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21679
