On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:43 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 01:29:02PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > On 18/07/2019 12.55, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:58 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé < > phi...@redhat.com> > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> On 7/18/19 9:10 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: > > >>> On 18/07/2019 08.25, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > > > > >>>> ... > > > > > >>>> Now there are no archive to download at this url... > > >>> > > >>> You just have to click on the "Source code" tab ... is that too hard? > > >> > > >> Argh it has been a rough night, now I feel ashamed. I scrolled but > > >> missed that tab. Really sorry for crying wolf here :/ > > >> > > > > > > Download QEMU page <https://www.qemu.org/download/> > > > > > > In all fairness to Philippe, this page could be better in terms of > > > human-computer interaction... If one presses 'Download', one > > > expects to get to the download links directly or obviously easily. > > > > I guess we should simply re-arrange the order of the tabs ... the > > OS-agnostic source code tab should come first (since this is about what > > we provide for download on our site), and then the others with > > references to the distros etc. > > I'm not sure it is clear cut. I think its reasonable to say that users > coming to QEMU are best served by using distro provided packages. Only > those wishing to actually hack on QEMU, or who need newer than the > distro provides, should prefer the source. Building from source has many > more potential hurdles / failure points than installing distro packages, > which can leave users with a worse first experience of QEMU. > > Yes, Daniel, but here we blend two visitor activities onto a single page: download source (and build), and install QEMU (from prebuilt binaries). Now wonder a confusion arises. Yours, Aleksandar > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- > https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- > https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- > https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| >
