Website download section: location of Mac OS X Readme

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> John,
>> 
>> 
>> How about if you put it into the installer itself so that it pops up
>> when they attempt to install it?
>> 
>
> There is no installer. You download the dmg (which is a disk image, like an iso), mount it (most browsers will do that automatically) and drag Gnucash.app to your /Applications folder. Then double click and away you go.
>
> I could have the script that makes the "/opt/gnucash-foo" link also display the Readme somehow, maybe by making it a PDF so that it opens in Preview -- though gratuitously opening other apps seems a bit rude.
>
> Anyway, the Readme *is* on the dmg, so the user can read it if s/he is so inclined. But Gnucash is a pretty big download (around 50MB), so I think that potential users should be able to read it before they commit to downloading.

Fair enough.  I'm just trying to think of how to make it available in a
way that's NOT a link off to a SF page.  Maybe a link to the wiki?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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