Download page needs a tidy up
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Thu Aug 22 00:32:07 PDT 2013
On 2013-08-22 05:07, Manu wrote:
> Where are they?
>
> Turns out there are links to the GDC binaries (hosted on bitbucket) on
> dlang.org/download <http://dlang.org/download>.
> ...I didn't previously notice they were there, never scrolled down far
> enough. The impression you get from the top of the page is that
> dlang.org <http://dlang.org> is just DMD related, and I quickly
> dismissed it previously >_<
I had no idea there were GDC binaries on http://dlang.org/download.html
> But there's still no LDC binary there... where is it?
I don't know if they were recently added but they are below the GDC
binaries.
> This needs to be fixed. You can argue I'm retarded and ignorant, but as
> an end user, it should take me no more than 5 seconds to find the
> download button.
>
> I suggest, on the front page of dlang.org <http://dlang.org>, there
> should be a MASSIVE button: "DOWNLOAD D COMPILERS", and the download
> page should be tweaked to be more obviously compiler agnostic.
I agree. At the top, of the download page there should be three buttons,
one for each compiler. Then JavaScript should be used to figure out the
platform. Of course we need a fallback for when JavaScript is disabled
or one wants to download for a different platform.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
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