[GRASS-user] Download the new release 6.4.0

[Stuart Edwards]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Stuart Edwards <sedwards2 at cinci.rr.com> wrote:
>> As a suggestion, the /download/index page doesn't add much to the download experience and may be a little confusing.
> 
> Mhh, there is only one relevant link as per-operating system provided at
> http://grass.osgeo.org/download/
> 
> Why confusing? It may be so, please explain to make me understand.

Sorry - poor explanation - if I'm at /download/, and then hit 'Software' in the the menu to the left, I find myself at /download/index.php which is the same screen so until I spot the 'other platforms' link in the center orange box I'm stuck. (This is OS X / Safari behavior)

The orange box in the center looks to a casual user as if it is the Mac download box - maybe we need to give some more prominence to the other binaries by name in this box?

> 
>>  Perhaps the download link should go directly to the /download/software.php page?
> 
>> From newcomers I got lots of feedback to avoid the complex table
> as landing page... so I made the "new" one (some months old).

but doesn't it just lead to the same place and require the user to make the same analysis of their needs?  

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of all the great work done on GRASS.

Stu


> 
> Markus
> 
>> Stu
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 10, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Luisa Peña <luisapena1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello all
>>>> I saw it here
>>>> (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-announce/2010-September/date.html)
>>>> that GRASS released a new stable version 6.4.0. The thing is: I cannot find
>>>> a windows binary of that exacly version. I only can find binaries from the
>>>> weekly updates and neither the code to compile in Windows. Maybe I'm being
>>>> to dumb but can anyone give me a hand?
>>> 
>>> As MarkusM pointed out, just go here:
>>> 
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/download/
>>> 
>>> Please tell me/us how to improve the Web site to avoid such problems.
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> Markus
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