Website download section

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Nov 14, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Because Gnucash on OSX is neither completely stable nor feature
> complete (even 2.2.9), and being a binary, I've made configuration
> choices (e.g., Webkit vs. GtkHtml). What OS versions are supported,
> what features are missing, what problems are known, and what
> configuration choices I've made are different for each version (and
> build -- I've done 7 successive builds of 2.2.9, renumbering 4 of
> them, as I've fixed bugs in the OSX build), and it's important that
> users be informed of that upfront.
>
> The readme files need to be on SF next to the downloads. Once Geert's
> new front page is in place, they can be on the gnucash.org website as
> well. Until then, the website doesn't even acknowledge that OSX
> downloads are available. (Before you ask why not, it's because I took
> a look at changing the page and decided that it would take too long to
> understand how to change it without blowing something up that I set it
> aside and went back to working on Gtk-OSX infrastructure, which I
> think is more important. The pointer to the downloads is on the MacOSX
> Quartz wiki page.)

Fair enough.  I'm mostly thinking longer-term anyways.  Longer term the
file should be on gnucash.org.  I'm not sure how to deal with the
moving target that is the OSX release.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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