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<font face="Ubuntu">I have a question about the download page at
puredata.info. Is there a special reason that the source tarball
is listed first in the file list?<br>
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<font face="Ubuntu"><font face="Ubuntu">Would it offend our FOSS
sensibilities to move the source package to the bottom of the
download list? It seems unusual to me to see the source listed
first.</font><br>
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I use Pd with my students, many of them undergraduates with no
understanding of the difference between source and binary. When I
assign students to download and install the Pd binary, despite my
explicit warnings, invariably a few of them will grab the source,
since it's at the top of the page and says "all platforms."<br>
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(In the most recent incident, a student downloaded the source,
and, unsure how to proceed, asked the university IT department,
who told him "just to open it in Adobe.") :-)<br>
<br>
Joel<br>
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