how to download newest version

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Tue Dec 20 10:20:51 EST 2016


Op maandag 19 december 2016 17:53:27 CET schreef lj:
> John Ralls wrote:
> > SourceForge has some secret algorithm for setting the download links on
> > the
> > project page (the big green button and the "Looking for the latest" line
> > just under the header). It's supposed to figure out the latest release
> > based on the OS your browser user-agent string reports, but sometimes goes
> > off somewhere else.
> 
> I'm pretty sure you have to set that yourself. Not secret or magic. Not
> automatic either. This lets the SF project admin decide what is the default.
> 
> Browsing around your download area on Sourceforge, I see that
> gnucash-2.6.11.bz2 is currently the default download for Linux + BSD +
> Solaris, gnucash-2.6.13-setup.exe is the default download for Windows, and
> Gnucash-intel-2.6.13-1.dmg is the default download for MacOSX. That's
> probably not what you want.
> 
> You can change these when logged in as project admin in the download file
> list. Click on the "i" to the right of the file, and check the boxes for
> platform. You should designate 1 file as the default download for each
> platform.
> 
Indeed. I remember doing this in the past and have now corrected the defaults 
for gnucash 2.6.15.

I *thought* I even documented this in our release process... Lo and behold! 
It's still there in the Sourceforge section :)
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Process#Sourceforge_file_uploads

Geert

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