On 20. 3. 2015 22:51, Adrien Nader wrote: > Hi, > > I've just pushed a redirect from http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net to > http://mingw-w64.yaxm.org in order to serve a new website. > > [snip] > > Any constructive criticism is welcome; don't hesitate.
Hi. I took a look on the website and I've got some notes which may or may not be applicable to other visitors: === Downloads/Others: The first paragraph in the tab talks about OS X builds straight away, as if Others == OSX. This also led to an impression that Rubenv's builds are also for OS X. Also most of the contents of the tab seems to belong to other tabs. I imagine that if a visitor was interested only in toolchains for Windows, he/she could be led to believe that the three options in the first tab were the only one, because he/she would never even look at the Others tab and discovered the link to SF.net file repository. The following organisation would make more sense to me: I propose 1) moving Rubenv's builds to the Windows tab, moving the mention of OpenSUSE to the Linux tab, 3) copying the link to SF.net to all relevant tabs (or completely outside of them), and 4) renaming the tab from Other to OS X. I don't think moving these mentions from the Others tab to the other tabs will confuse users as to which one to download, as the gray boxes with logos serve well to make their contents seem as more trust-worthy than the plain text around. === Downloads/Source: This may be just my profession talking, but links to various stuff on SF.net with "SourceForge" as the title seem misleading. === Downloads/Linux: I know Arch Linux users are generally competent, but I'd like to see the link point to something actually related to mingw-w64, rather than just to AUR homepage. This may be a good link: <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=n&K=mingw-w64&SB=c&PP=250> Also, wouldn't it be better to also mention the packages in official Arch repos? <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=mingw-w64> They don't seem outdated or anything. === Downloads/Windows: Mentioning Cygwin while omitting MSYS2 seems weird, given the numbers of packages they provide. I'm definitely in favor of mentioning MSYS2 in this tab. Is there a reason Cygwin is first in this list? === Overall, the website looks very good IMO. I noticed some typos and weird sentences in some places; should I also note them here on the ML? -- David Macek
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