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

[Nicklas Larsson]

Just to clarify, on the newly proposed link:

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags

both *.zip AND *.tar.gz files are available.









On Monday, 14 February 2022, 21:27:41 CET, Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com> wrote: 





+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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