Re: About the "pre-built installers" on the OF website

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Julien Bect 
>To: octave-maintainers  
>Date: 2016/7/15, Fri 15:53
>Subject: About the "pre-built installers" on the OF website
> 
>
>Carnë, all,
>
>I was wondering about the relevance of advertising "prebuilt
    installers" directly on the OF homepage.
>
>http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html
>
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>
>"
>For convenience Octave-Forge supplies pre-built installers for
      Octave:
>
>    Windows: installers   [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/]
>    Mac OSX: installers   
>[https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary/2016-07-11-binary-octave-4.0.3/]
>    Mac OSX: install instructions    
>[http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_MacOS_X]
>"
>
>The first link points to the official Window installers, which
    actually are not provided by Octave Forge but by the Octave project
    itself.  It is redundant (and potentially misleading).
>
>The third link points to "Octave on Mac OS X" page on the wiki.  The
    same link is available from the official "Download GNU Octave" page
    (https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html), which is where people 
should looking for info about installing Octave.
>
>The second link points directly to the dmg for Mac OS X, but the
    same link is readily available from "Octave on Mac OS X" page on the
    wiki.
>
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>
>For clarity, I would vote for removing the information about
    "prebuilt installers" from http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html.
>
>@++
>Julien


I agree with you.

Tatsuro