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rmyorston / busybox-w32

WIN32 native port of BusyBox.
https://frippery.org/busybox
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Update README.md to include links to download the binaries #345

Closed doctorpangloss closed 11 months ago

rmyorston commented 1 year ago

README.md provides a link to my web page for the downloads. This is a deliberate ploy to force people to, at least, scroll through the web page so they know it exists and has information in it.

I don't think it's appropriate to make links to the prerelease binaries too prominent. I often mention them in GitHub issues when they might be useful for testing. In that context the limited testing they get is less significant.

avih commented 1 year ago

This is a deliberate ploy to force people to, at least, scroll through the web page so they know it exists and has information in it

Personally this very thing always wastes at least 15s of my time till I'm able to pinpoint the links.

Also, if that page has useful info, shouldn't that info included at the readme?

Basically, currently the docs/info is spread over few places (very unfortunately also at the release notes, which most people will not check for docs), but I think it would be better for users if the source repo also included all the info/docs/notes.

doctorpangloss commented 1 year ago

This is an obstacle for increasing the adoption of busybox64.

People are trying to install this because I say so, so they don't need to read anything, but they can't find an install link.