Re: [julias@macrovision.com: arg.]

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Brett Smith wrote:
> Below is a mail I received at <gnu at gnu dot org> with some feedback about the
> GCC web page.

Thanks for the forward, Brett.

> From: Julia Smith <julias at macrovision dot com>
>
> OK, is it possible to get a gjc release or source in ZIP or TAR form? I
> am having no luck using cvs at all and find your installation pages
> infuriating to simply get at code. I believe will not be able to collect
> anything via cvs because of the firewall setup at work.
>
> Please if you have a page that posts a "release"
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html
>
> please please PLEASE have the content available on the linked pages.
> Being sent on a snipe hunt for the source via means that are not
> available to most people such as a simple web page download is very poor
> form and rather bad web page design. =/

Julia, I may miss your point, but...

 o The first link at http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html does point to
   http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html which has dozens of download sites
   for GCC.

 o http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/, for example, has the following
   "To obtain GCC please use our mirror sites, one of the GNU mirror
   sites, or our CVS server".

 o Our navigation bar on the main page has a section "Download".

If there's indeed a problem, we'll try our best to address it, but
unfortunately from your mail it doesn't occur (to me, at least) would
you'd like to see changed.

Gerald

PS: Finally, the footer of our web pages indicate to contact
gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org concerning web pages and GCC issues, not gnu at gnu dot org dot 
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