On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 06:15:20PM +0000, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2018, 15:08 -0400 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> > > Leaving 2.2.3 as it is?
> > 
> > Yes I think so. 
> 
> I suggest to hide the text mentioning the two installer variants (and
> pointing to 2.2.3). It probably irritates more than it helps, see
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11079

I agree that the current text is confusing. I wonder if we can improve
on the confusion by just saying something like

    Unfortunately, official LyX 2.3.0 Windows binaries are not available
    at this time. The most recent LyX release that has official Windows
    binaries is 2.2.3. There are 2 Windows installer variants:

I will make that change.

If you think that it is still too confusing, and other developers also
agree that we should hide that text, I can be convinced.

> The 2.2.3 binaries are still reachable, after all, via "Previous
> versions".

But that requires a few extra clicks.

> I'd also keep the link to the LyX for Windows wiki page, where Uwe or
> somebody else might add information should there be "inofficial"
> binaries we do not want to officially list on the website.

Agreed.

Scott

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