Website download section

[Stephen R. Besch]

Small suggestions:

1) List Linux download first. Putting Windows first and prominent 
suggests that this is a windows development effort with a port to linux, 
rather than the other way around.

2) Add svn address (http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk) to the 
getting GnuCash part of the news sections.

Steve Besch


Geert Janssens wrote:
> I have made some progress with my proposals.
>
> To see the intermediate result, surf to:
> http://www.kobaltwit.be/gnucash/index.phtml
> (Just ignore the php safe mode warnings. They are caused by my hosting 
> provider but not relevant for the changes and will not appear on the official 
> GnuCash website.)
>
> What I did so far:
> * Added a new page for downloading. While trying to organize all the different 
> download mechanisms I came to the conclusion there are too many to fit on the 
> start page. So instead I have created a new page where all the possible 
> download/installation options are grouped together. This page has
>   - direct one-click links to the installers we have available, 
>   - information on how to install on linux using the native install tools
>   - links to the source files
>   - general links to the sourceforge download page (for those that want to 
> download something not explicitly listed on this new page)
> These links are grouped in stable and unstable, with a small introduction.
>
> * On the start page, I added a highly visible floating box with download links 
> for GnuCash. Windows and MacOS X users can download the latest stable release 
> installer for their platform with a single click. For all other downloads, I 
> refer to the newly added download page.
>
> * In the navigation menu, I removed the separate download options and instead 
> the Download item itself is now a link to the download page. I figured it 
> didn't make much sense to duplicate this information again.
>
> * PACKAGE MAINTAINERS, this bit is important for you. To minimize the amount 
> of changes required when a new download is available (either a new stable 
> release or in case of MacOS X a new stable subrelease), I have extracted the 
> version information into a separate file: externals/global_params.php. This 
> file contains a number of php variable declarations that are used extensively 
> on the download page and in the download section on the startpage. Whenever a 
> new GnuCash is released, please update the relevant variable in this file.
>
> What I have not done yet:
> * Fix the release news items
> * Translations. The new elements are gettextized though, so ready to be 
> translated. I prefer to wait with this until I have had some feedback on the 
> actual texts. They may still change.
>
> Some questions/remarks:
> * General: please have a look at http://www.kobaltwit.be/gnucash/phtml and 
> give your feedback (again: just ignore the php safe mode warnings).
> * I'm not a native English speaker (Dutch is my mother tongue), so my phrasing 
> and choice of words may be suboptimal. Suggestions for improvements are 
> welcome.
> * The original site had links to a USA and a European sourcecode-only "mirror" 
> (for the lack of a better word). I have added those to the source code section 
> on the download page, but not quite as they were before. I have added direct 
> links to the source tarball for the latest stable release, instead of showing 
> the full directory listing. Is such a directory listing still required ? I 
> could add it to the "Other" section at the end of the page. Note that the 
> European mirror still has issues in that case as I mentioned in a previous 
> mail.
> * As for generating a patchset later on: I have added a new page, a new php 
> script and two new icons and I have changed two existing files. What is the 
> best way to deliver this to someone with svn access ? svn diff doesn't seem to 
> handle binary files.
> * I have added short descriptions on how to install GnuCash for a number of 
> Linux distributions via their native software installer tools. The ones that 
> are there are those I use myself (plus the line Tim provided for Ubuntu). 
> There are still some popular distros missing like openSUSE, Kubuntu, Gentoo, 
> Debian,... I don't know about the installer tools in those distros. If anyone 
> wants to add a line for another distro, just let me know.
>
> Geert
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