From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Christopher Smith <cmsmith193@gmail.com>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 26024@debbugs.gnu.org, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: bug#26024: Help with download...
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 06:37:54 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4eaf053-5b27-4175-a965-5f536e9a94fd@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANdb5czBdpmo7D=w2McedjFHwOyUNF5heyRR9odkDtMTKLCqFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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I think this might also be relevant:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-03/msg00084.html
At least if a README is present someone might think to look at it. If none is present then it's a guessing game. And even with the README, as the message above indicates, the zip-file naming convention is not obvious.
From: Christopher Smith [mailto:cmsmith193@gmail.com]
Yeah Mr. Morris, you're onto something there. I'm a sophomore physics student just looking around the web for useful tools and Quora.com lead me to emacs. I honestly have no idea what it is though and my programming skills end at hello world. Us windows users are definitely used to just going url => downloads => windows => for latest version click here! Thank you all so much though for the quick responses!
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Glenn Morris <HYPERLINK "mailto:rgm@gnu.org" \nrgm@gnu.org> wrote:
FWIW I think the point here is that "here's the ftp server, you figure
out which file you need" is now archaic. The new thing is A Big
Button that you press that defaults to the "right" file for you, and a
small "other versions" link. See eg HYPERLINK "http://firefox.com" \nfirefox.com.
Also, one normally skips to the end to get the latest version, but on
HYPERLINK "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows" \nftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows, "emacs-25.1-2" sorts before "emacs-25.1",
which doesn't help.
Perhaps MS Windows users are additionally confused to not get an .exe
file that they Just Click to start installing. There's a 200 line README
file that explains what to do, but no-one reads the README. :)
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-08 8:40 bug#26024: Help with download Christopher Smith
2017-03-08 12:38 ` Phillip Lord
2017-03-08 21:34 ` Christopher Smith
2017-03-09 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-09 5:09 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-09 6:00 ` Christopher Smith
2017-03-09 14:37 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-03-09 15:19 ` Phillip Lord
2021-09-25 18:32 ` Stefan Kangas
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