how to download newest version

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Wed Dec 21 10:25:04 EST 2016


> On Dec 20, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op dinsdag 20 december 2016 09:04:00 CET schreef John Ralls:
>>> On Dec 20, 2016, at 7:20 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
>>> <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Process#Sourceforge_file_uploads>
>> I had just cleared the settings on older versions. They override an
>> underlying algorithm that's supposed to feed the most recent release
>> automatically. That algorithm worked correctly when I tested on all three
>> OSs last night.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> Ah, that would be better still. Shall I undo my changes or will you ?

I did.

Do note that we'll want to use the overrides next summer as we do the 2.7 beta releases so that the BGB points at the stable releases.

Regards,
John Ralls



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