[Spice-devel] virt-viewer for Windows is quite difficult to download

[Jonathon Jongsma]

alternately, we could just change the link text to something else so the user doesn't think that the link will lead directly to an .msi file?



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christophe Fergeau" <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> To: "Anthony Loiseau" <anthony.loiseau at gmail.com>
> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:52:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] virt-viewer for Windows is quite difficult to download
> 
> Hey,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:12:47PM +0100, Anthony Loiseau wrote:
> > Dear spice developpers and dear spice-space website maintainers,
> > 
> > For you to know, the link to download virt viewer windows installer (msi
> > file) is currently buggy.
> > 
> > Page : http://www.spice-space.org/download.html
> > extract : " virt-viewer Windows installer - 32 bit -
> > virt-viewer-x86.msi<http://virt-manager.org/download/>
> >  "
> > 
> > 
> > The link is coded as this, which force the user to download the HTML page
> > containing the final MSI download link.
> > <a *type="application/octet-stream"*
> > href="http://virt-manager.org/download/"
> > download="">virt-viewer-x86.msi</a>
> 
> Hmm why 'download'? Do you mean the user needs to access that page, and
> then click on the right link? If so, this is intentional so that we don't
> have to update the link on spice-space.org every time a new virt-viewer
> windows build is available.
> 
> Maybe the virt-viewer people would be ok with having a virt-viewer-x86.msi
> symlink which would point to the latest release, and we could link to that,
> dunno how convenient this would be for them.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback,
> 
> Christophe
> 
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