Re: [Qemu-devel] No archives to download from www.qemu.org/download/

[Aleksandar Markovic]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:43 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
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 <
> address@hidden>
> > > 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
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