Dale Harvey wrote:
I think it is a question of the aims of inkscape, If you are more interested in building on the active developer community then the link should probably just be deleted, as the link to the main downloads page is quite prominent on the main navigation
I think the designer intended the link for a more end user friendly one click download button (ok, they have to click another at sf) where they didnt have to decide which package to choose. Download now links are becoming quite popular as a means to provide the user with the quickest and easiest way to provide the user with the product, http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ would be my example. users looking for a download now link are expecting this behaviour. users who do not want .exe / dmg also expect this behaviour and look to the navigation.
I think adding a link to http://inkscape.org/win32/win32buildnotes.html to the windows development builds section in the downloads page would be useful in attracting more windows developers. I also think the build environment is probably the most off putting, but thats another discussion
anyway, its to discuss stuff like this that i posted the site for. if its popular concensus / Im told to, ill change the links
As for the disabled images, cheers, Ill add that to things to work on
Dale
Remember that these snapshots are work-in-progress, debug development builds, and are not really intended for the typical end user. The real releases are provided by SF.net's file release system. A page leading them to the nightlies should inform people that they are volunteering to help in Inkscape debug and testing. You are right that Firefox is a good example, and their equivalent of our snapshots is this page:
http://www.mozilla.org/developer/
Look at the download links near the bottom. Something like this for Inkscape would be great!
You think building Inkscape on Win32 is tough? Mozilla is a nightmare! ;-)
bob