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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Hans Lonsdale <hanslonsdale@mailfence.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting latest development version
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 11:38:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4Mh/4JmzNJfrLF6@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1963649397.63084.1669489596756@orville.co-bxl>

* Hans Lonsdale <hanslonsdale@mailfence.com> [2022-11-27 11:04]:
> Could you add more details (commands for download) directly on "software/emacs/download.html" on 
> how to get the various possibilities (releases, development version).  Currently everything is dispersed
> in the emacs website and the savannah website.  It is quite a strain to have to go through searching for things.
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html

I may add here, that I when hiring people, I give them to do the Emacs
Tutorial, however, directions on how to download Emacs are very
unclear for beginners.

It is fine and good for GNU/Linux.

But those using Windows have problem:

They click here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#nonfree

after that they click and redirect to mirror:
https://gnuftp.uib.no/emacs/windows/

and there is no way to see what to download exactly and what to do?
They get this listing:

Index of /emacs/windows

Icon  Name                         Last modified      Size  Description[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory                                  -   
[DIR] emacs-22/                    2019-04-16 23:30    -   
[DIR] emacs-23/                    2019-04-16 22:50    -   
[DIR] emacs-24/                    2019-04-16 22:40    -   
[DIR] emacs-25/                    2019-04-16 22:35    -   
[DIR] emacs-26/                    2019-08-30 15:10    -   
[DIR] emacs-27/                    2021-03-31 18:49    -   
[DIR] emacs-28/                    2022-09-13 18:57    -   
[   ] libXpm-3.5.7-w32-src.zip     2008-03-26 13:16   79K  
[   ] libXpm-3.5.7-w32-src.zip.sig 2008-03-26 13:16  280   
[   ] libxpm-3.5.8-w32-src.zip     2010-04-10 02:12  1.4M  
[   ] libxpm-3.5.8-w32-src.zip.sig 2010-04-10 02:13   96   
[   ] xpm-nox-4.2.0-src.zip        2016-09-18 20:37  267K  
[   ] xpm-nox-4.2.0-src.zip.sig    2016-09-18 20:37  173   

And that is very confusing for people who are not programmers and not
GNU/Linux users.

For Windows there shall be direct download link to single installable
package.

I have filed this as bug.

-- 
Jean

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-27  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-26 18:07 Getting latest development version Hans Lonsdale via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-26 18:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-26 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-26 19:06   ` Hans Lonsdale
2022-11-27  8:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27  8:38     ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-11-27  9:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-26 19:10 ` Jean Louis

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