On 18/07/2019 13.43, Daniel P. Berrangé 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 <phi...@redhat.com> >>> 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.
Well, yes, but actually I think these users won't visit the QEMU download page in the first place. They simply do "dnf search qemu" and then "dnf install ..." (with s/dnf/$package_tool_of_their_distro/) and are done with it. At least this is what I do when I want to install an additional software (without compiling it on my own) - I hardly visit their website first. Thomas
