Re: Suggestion: Change the link names on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:25:19PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:50:54AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > After watching the Nth person bitch on IRC that they downloaded the ia64
> > image when they meant to download the amd64 image, I have a constructive
> > suggestion for improving matters.
[..]
> > # netinst CD image (generally 135-175 MB)
> > [alpha][amd64][arm][armel][hppa][i386][ia64][mips][mipsel][powerpc][sparc]
> >
> > to this:
> > # netinst CD image (generally 135-175 MB)
> > [x86 32-bit][x86 64-bit][PowerPC][ARM (new ABI)][ARM (old ABI)][DEC Alpha][HP PA-RISC][Itanium][MIPS][Little Endian MIPS][SPARC]
>
> Seconded, thanks for the suggestion.
> That would look like :
> http://teubr.eu.org/~spaillar/debian/webwml/english/releases/lenny/debian-installer/index.en.html
Fixed now.
Frans, any opinion about this ?
Looking at http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ and
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/installmanual
I ever wonder if a table with a line per arch, and a media per columb
would not be more appropriate.
> > (I realise this opens us to all kinds of bikeshedding around the exact
> > wording, the ordering and so on. My suggestion is that someone just make
> > a decision and stick to it, because almost anything would be better than
> > the alphabetical arch-name list we currently have).
>
> IMHO, it doesn't need to be sorted. It should instead do the same as
> http://get.debian.net/ and display the arch form the user first.
>
> If this need any order, that should be sorted by inst score from popcon:
> http://popcon.debian.org/
That would be for a next step I guess.
--
Simon Paillard
? debian/release_data.wml
Index: debian/installer.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/template/debian/installer.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.14 installer.wml
--- debian/installer.wml 19 Feb 2009 02:27:21 -0000 1.14
+++ debian/installer.wml 24 Nov 2009 23:32:00 -0000
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
<set-var %attributes />
<when <not <get-var format />/>>
- <set-var format="[<a href="<get-var url />">@ARCH@</a>]" />
+ <set-var format="[<a href="<get-var url />"><: print ( $arches{@ARCH@} or '@ARCH@') :></a>]" />
</when>
<when <not <get-var arch />/>>
<set-var arch="<stable-images-arches/>" />
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