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A better presentation for download links

Posted by gouessej on Nov 10, 2011; 1:02pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/A-better-presentation-for-download-links-tp3496662.html

Hi

There is a very recurrent problem with all projects of JogAmp, people hardly find where to download its libraries. The following page is empty... which does not help a lot:
http://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php/Release_2.0-rc3

I suggest some changes to allow people to find download links more easily:
- the "Builds" section should remain unchanged
- each sub-project should have a "download" link. Currently, the user must click on "Home"...
- this "download" link should lead to a page with 2 links (one for the latest release or release candidate and one for the latest nightly builds)
- it should be possible to download JOGL / JOAL / JOCL with GlueGen at the same time (not in 2 separate archives) or the download page should mention that GlueGen is required to run JOGL / JOAL / JOCL
- the main page should have a download section above the "Builds" section leading to a page with 2 links etc... but allowing to download JOGL, JOAL, JOCL and GlueGen at the same time

Currently a lot of people are confused and search for the JARs for hours. I have never had such problems but we have to take into account that some newbies don't even know what the word "Builds" mean (especially non native speakers). A lot of people complained about the difficulty of finding the JARs for example on Stackoverflow.
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