how to download newest version

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 10:24:53 EST 2016


Perhaps the Grinch that stole Christmas has been here :)

David C

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> 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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