[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-PSC] difficult to get GRASS source code package
Nicklas Larsson
n_larsson at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 14 12:38:44 PST 2022
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:
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>> 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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