[Pydotorg-redesign] Download pages

[Aahz]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>     Johannes> I see the /download/ page as an *entry point* where a user
>     Johannes> should be able to download the most popular packages right
>     Johannes> away. When a user has different needs, he/she can go to one of
>     Johannes> the more specific pages.
> 
> I see three possible organizations:
> 
>     * A single download page containing just about everything people would
>       need, with an occasional jump to another page or to some text farther
>       down on the download page.  This is what I'm proposing.
> 
>     * A platform-centered download page - first click takes you to Windows
>       or Linux or Source or whatever page, from which you select the version
>       you're interested in.  This has the disadvantage that version info is
>       scattered around and maybe duplicated.
> 
>     * A version-centered download page - first click the version you're
>       interested in and then select the platform.  This is similar to the
>       current setup.  Aside from not being able to easily identify the
>       precise file(s) you want to download, it scatters (and maybe
>       duplicates) the platform information across several pages.

Depending on what you mean by "everything", there's at least a fourth
option that I suggested on pydotorg this morning: keep the current setup
(more or less), but add a set of "quickie" download links on
/download/index.html for only the current version.  That would be
source, Windows, and Mac.  Note that the current setup sort-of combines
options two and three.  I don't object to switching to option one, but I
think I'd prefer it be a separate page and still have the quickie links
on index.html.
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