aMule Forum
English => Forum help => Topic started by: lfroen on June 05, 2007, 10:33:05 AM
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IMHO we must add section "contributed packages" on amule.org for such files. Phoenix?
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Only Kry has the force(R)(c). But I like the idea.
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IMHO we must add section "contributed packages" on amule.org for such files. Phoenix?
You mean in the home page or in the forums? In the home page wuischke is right, only Kry can do that.
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I mean in homepage, at "downloads"
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If that would help, I could put them to a directory-structure on my site
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I mean in homepage, at "downloads"
If you follow the link for downloads-linux/*BSD, you will eventually reach this forum on "distro specific files". This is the proper place for links to these files. Remember, we do not distribute binary files.
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Remember, we do not distribute binary files.
Yea, extremely user-friendly way. My point is exactly that: we must distribute binaries in same way as other project do.
If people are willing to build binaries for Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian/whatever - I see no problem in publishing it.
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We don't publish these files - the user do and we collect the links in combination with a big warning.
In the end it's not different from the current solution (forum), just the presentation should change, be more user friendly.
Basically it's the same as the news, just using a different forum.
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We don't publish these files - the user do and we collect the links in combination with a big warning.
And what is that terrible danger you warn about? Binary is no different that source in any way: no sane user is going to review your code to ensure it's somehow fits his/her expectations.
Moreover, user should not compile anything - is this a news for somebody?
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It should not be different in any way, but imagine what happens if it is. Anyone could put malicious code inside the binary and distribute it here.
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It should not be different in any way, but imagine what happens if it is. Anyone could put malicious code inside the binary and distribute it here.
This called FUD. Completely imaginary scenario.
What difference does it make whether link is on page called "Downloads" or "Forum" or anything else? Someone may register domain www.a-mule.org and distribute code there, should I continue?! Let's not hide laziness behind "security concerns".
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OK, being to one who volunteered to redesign the main page, I'll try to think about something. (I prefer to call it real life instead of laziness, though.)
There's no difference, as long as the user knows, that it is an untested user-contributed package.
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I like the idea of having a unified page to download precompiled aMule binaries. Maybe also wxGTK binaries...or is that beyond our scope?
Regards.
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Uh... what's wrong about the forum?
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Uh... what's wrong about the forum?
"Forum" is place for discussion(s). "Downloads" is place for .... well, downloads.
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And we use a forum to host the binaries. So what?
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Nothing is really wrong with the forums, but things could just be presented in a nicer way.
You know, with these cute distro icons and stuff to make finding a possibly working package very easy.
This is not really high priority, but a nice thing to have.
BTW: Do we have PHP with gettext?
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And we use a forum to host the binaries. So what?
Nothing. Sky is not gonna fall.
But this is inconvenient and annoying to no end. And for no particular reason.
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Why is it inconvenient? They arrive to the forum and they have the downloads there. What's the problem?
I seriously fail to see the problem. There are sticky threads with the distro name. What's the problem?
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Why is it inconvenient? ...
I seriously fail to see the problem. There are sticky threads with the distro name. What's the problem?
Problem is someone looking for "download aMule for my Linux" will be looking for "download" in homepage. Not some topic in forums. Especially considering the fact, that we DO have download page.
It's not so hard to understand: download section in homepage -> for downloads; forum -> for discussions.