[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-PSC] difficult to get GRASS source code package

[Huidae Cho]

+1 for ZIP links.

Huidae

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> On 2022-02-14 4:01 p.m., Veronica Andreo wrote:
> >
> > El lun, 14 feb 2022 a las 20:29, Vaclav Petras (<wenzeslaus at gmail.com
> > <mailto:wenzeslaus at gmail.com>>) escribió:
> >
> >
> >     On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 14:22, Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:veroandreo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         Currently, there's a link to releases  in the first entry of
> >         https://grass.osgeo.org/download/
> >         <https://grass.osgeo.org/download/> that points to
> >         https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases
> >         <https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases>. I agree that esp for
> >         8.0.0 the link to the tarball means a lot of browsing down.
> >
> >
> >     Or instead of the releases page to that tags page I linked above.
> >     The links (both .tar.gz and .zip) are more readily available there.
> >     The target audience is technical anyway, so perhaps this is a
> >     preferred view at this point in the workflow.
> >
> >     https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags
> >     <https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags>
> >
> >
> > Here's the PR: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website/pull/284
> > <https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website/pull/284>
> >
> >
>
> +1 to that change.
>
> By the way, one of my last interactions with Martin Isenburg (may his
> soul rest in peace) he gave me a strong lecture when I tried to send him
> a tarball "jeff it is 2021 please send me something useful like a ZIP".
>   He is totally right of course, and we should all remember to post
> links to zip as well as .tar.gz etc on our main download pages.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
>
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