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

[Carnë Draug]

On 15 July 2016 at 07:53, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
> Carnë, all,
>
> I was wondering about the relevance of advertising "prebuilt installers"
> directly on the OF homepage.
>
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html
>
> -----
>
> "
> 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.
>
> -----
>
> For clarity, I would vote for removing the information about "prebuilt
> installers" from http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html.
>
> @++
> Julien

Many people still end up in the Octave Forge page when looking for Octave
core.  We should keep the links somewhere although I agree that the text
could be improved.

The text ended sounding like that because a long time ago, there was no
such pages on the wiki, and the only binaries were distributed by OF.
With the time, we simply changed the links.

Carnë