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lfroen

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download section in main page?
« on: June 05, 2007, 10:33:05 AM »

IMHO we must add section "contributed packages" on amule.org for such files. Phoenix?
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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2007, 12:20:22 PM »

Only Kry has the force(R)(c). But I like the idea.
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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2007, 03:47:58 AM »

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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lfroen

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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2007, 08:26:09 AM »

I mean in homepage, at "downloads"
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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2007, 08:23:23 PM »

If that would help, I could put them to a directory-structure on my site
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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2007, 03:17:16 PM »

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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lfroen

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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2007, 05:16:48 PM »

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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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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2007, 08:13:49 PM »

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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lfroen

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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2007, 07:35:48 AM »

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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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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2007, 02:44:17 PM »

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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lfroen

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Re: Fedora 7
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2007, 03:39:37 PM »

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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Re: download section in main page?
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2007, 10:02:22 PM »

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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Re: download section in main page?
« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2007, 12:47:08 AM »

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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Re: download section in main page?
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2007, 04:09:41 AM »

Uh... what's wrong about the forum?
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lfroen

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Re: download section in main page?
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2007, 10:39:58 AM »

Uh... what's wrong about the forum?
"Forum" is place for discussion(s). "Downloads" is place for .... well, downloads.
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