You are right; hm, I went there several times,
and didn't see it, thus I guess it is the green
colour which doesn't announce to me "link" but
just something superfluous (while the link section
below has the traditional blue colour).
But god knows about all these visual clues etc.;
it's there, so I can't complain ( :-( ;-) ).
Thanks
Oliver
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:01:36PM +0200, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> There should be a link
>
> Download maxima-5.16.3.tar.gz
>
> in a green box. That should download the source for maxima.
>
> Andrej
>
> 2008/8/25 Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk>:
> > I didn't realise that that page was different than
> > where you get from the Maxima site, but nevertheless,
> > it doesn't help:
> >
> > Going to
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=4933
> >
> > there is no source-code. Clicking on "Linux" doesn't change
> > anything, still only rpm's. Alright, so I click "all files",
> > and then end up at
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933,
> >
> > which is where you get from the Maxima page (only speaking about
> > windows).
> >
> > There one must click "Package", getting to
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933&package_id=4960
> >
> > and only this finally contains all packages.
> >
> >
> > Perhaps, if there is a problem with that SourceForge site, then one could
> > just update the Maxima-download site, just offering all the above
> > links?
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:43:25PM +0200, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> >> The windows release is offered because windows installer was uploaded
> >> after source and linux binaries. The way the download site looks like,
> >> download statistics etc. is not something we control. The download
> >> section changed since our last release and we need to learn how to
> >> best use it.
> >>
> >> As I mentioned before you need to go to
> >> http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=4933
> >> to get platform specific files.
> >>
> >> Andrej
> >>
> >> 2008/8/25 Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > since a few days, the Sourceforge download page only
> >> > offers *windows* downloads, that is, following the
> >> > link from the Maxima homepage, one arrives at
> >> >
> >> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933
> >> >
> >> > where then only the release
> >> >
> >> > 5.16.3-Windows
> >> >
> >> > is offered, for both browsers I'm using, Konqueror and Firefox.
> >> > If this is caused by the download site trying to figure out my
> >> > "needs", then I don't think "intelligent" behaviour on the download site is
> >> > a good idea (on the contrary, I think it's a pretty bad idea):
> >> >
> >> > First, often these things don't work (like in my case, as a
> >> > Linux user). And then what about Linux users wanting to download
> >> > a windows file, or vice versa??
> >> >
> >> > The problem is not really diminished by the fact that now apparently
> >> > the "standard" is an operating system which by its nature wants to
> >> > eliminate every other choice. If suddenly some unknown operating
> >> > system would show up, one would feel a bit surprised, and this
> >> > potentially even positively, but, at least for me, this is not
> >> > the case when suddenly only microsoft shows up (since this is not
> >> > exactly uncommon).
> >> >
> >> > It is also furthermore rather strange that the counters for Linux
> >> > downloads don't work (while the microsoft counters seem to work,
> >> > though I can't check it).
> >> >
> >> > I really think that the obvious favouritism of microsoft products
> >> > at the Maxima download pages is inadequate.
> >> >
> >> > Oliver
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Oliver Kullmann
> > Computer Science Department
> > Swansea University
> > Faraday Building, Singleton Park
> > Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
> > http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrej
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Dr. Oliver Kullmann
Computer Science Department
Swansea University
Faraday Building, Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/