Just to clarify, on the newly proposed link: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags
both *.zip AND *.tar.gz files are available. On Monday, 14 February 2022, 21:27:41 CET, Huidae Cho <gras...@gmail.com> wrote: +1 for ZIP links. Huidae On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > On 2022-02-14 4:01 p.m., Veronica Andreo wrote: >> >> El lun, 14 feb 2022 a las 20:29, Vaclav Petras (<wenzesl...@gmail.com >> <mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com>>) escribió: >> >> >> On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 14:22, Veronica Andreo <veroand...@gmail.com >> <mailto:veroand...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> Currently, there's a link to releases in the first entry of >> https://grass.osgeo.org/download/ >> <https://grass.osgeo.org/download/> that points to >> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases >> <https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases>. I agree that esp for >> 8.0.0 the link to the tarball means a lot of browsing down. >> >> >> Or instead of the releases page to that tags page I linked above. >> The links (both .tar.gz and .zip) are more readily available there. >> The target audience is technical anyway, so perhaps this is a >> preferred view at this point in the workflow. >> >> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags >> <https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags> >> >> >> Here's the PR: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website/pull/284 >> <https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website/pull/284> >> >> > > +1 to that change. > > By the way, one of my last interactions with Martin Isenburg (may his > soul rest in peace) he gave me a strong lecture when I tried to send him > a tarball "jeff it is 2021 please send me something useful like a ZIP". > He is totally right of course, and we should all remember to post > links to zip as well as .tar.gz etc on our main download pages. > > -jeff > > > > > > -- > Jeff McKenna > GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training > co-founder of FOSS4G > http://gatewaygeo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- Huidae Cho, Ph.D., GISP, /hidɛ t͡ɕo/, 조희대, 曺喜大 GRASS GIS Developer https://idea.isnew.info/ _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev