Website download section

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> On Friday 13 November 2009, John Ralls wrote:
>> I got the same results.
>>
>> Interestingly, if I copy the contents of your page into a file and
>> display the file in Firefox, I don't get the redirect screen either.
>> That suggests that it's neither cookie magic (since the only cookies
>> it can see with my setup are the ones it sets itself) nor anything in
>> the html header (since those are also the same). There must be
>> something in the http headers... truly something beyond our control.
>>
> Yes, http headers is what I actually meant. Sorry for the confusion.
>
>> Anyway, not a big deal. Probably the best solution is to keep a copy
>> of the Readme on the Gnucash.org website and just link to that (copies
>> and those, actually, because there's a separate one for unstable).
>>
> I did notice there's a separate one for each release (2.3.5, 2.3.7, 2.2.9,...) 
> indeed.
>
> I slightly hesitant to put a copy of the Readme files on the gnucash.org 
> website. Technically there's no objection, it's rather that this would add an 
> extra manual step in maintaining the website that could easily be forgotten 
> (put the files on sourceforge, remember to copy them to gnucash.org).
>
> If the download mirror intermediate screen bothers you enough, I don't mind 
> setting this up though. As you maintain the OS X port, it's your call.

Why do we have separate per-release Readme files?   I can understand a
different readme for 2.2 vs. 2.3, and a CHANGELOG per release, but why a
full separate readme per package?  That seems overkill to me.

> Geert

-derek

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