Date: 2015-01-20 10:19:53 +0100
From: @drstmane
To: Documentation maintainers <>
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Last updated: 2015-07-15 16:22:53 +0200

Comment 20560

Date: 2015-01-20 10:19:53 +0100
From: @drstmane

The "copied" installation documentation under

https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/UserGuide/Downloads/Fedora
https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/UserGuide/Downloads/UbuntuDebian
https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/UserGuide/Downloads/FreeBSD
https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/UserGuide/Downloads/Mac
https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/UserGuide/Downloads/Solaris
https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/UserGuide/Downloads/Windows

as linked to from
https://www.monetdb.org/Downloads
and
https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/Guide/Installation

is largely outdated, among others mentioning obsolete release "Jan2014-SP1" rather than the latest "Oct2014_SP-1" release, as well as listing old OS versions that are no longer supported, but lacking up-to-date OS versions that are supported.

The "genuine" (automatically generated and maintained) installation information under
http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/
in detail under

http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/Fedora/
http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/deb/
http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/epel/
http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/FreeBSD/
http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/MacOSX/
http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/Solaris/
http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/Windows/

is up-to-date.

IMHO, we should either find a way to update to former (copies) automatically with every release, or replace the former by direct links to the latter.
In the second case, we might want to consider, though to update the information under the latter with some of the extra information from the former.

Comment 20647

Date: 2015-02-10 16:47:00 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

I have updated the left menu of the main Downloads page. I have also added text to the Windows download page from the page that now used to be referred to by the Windows link in said menu.
The MacOSX link still points to the old page since it has a lot of information, but all the others now point directly to the downloads area. So no longer to an old copy.
Please check.

Comment 20648

Date: 2015-02-10 17:11:43 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

(In reply to comment 1)

The MacOSX link still points to the old page since it has a lot of
information, but all the others now point directly to the downloads area.

Now the MacOSX information has been copied to the downloads site and the link in the menu has been changed to point there.

Comment 20658

Date: 2015-02-15 11:58:59 +0100
From: @drstmane

Hi Sjoerd,

thank you very much!

https://www.monetdb.org/Downloads look great to me, now, linking directly to the genuine download site & pages.

However,
the links under https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/Guide/Installation --- both in the left-hand side context menu as well as at the bottom of the pape --- still point to the outdate copies of the download pages,
and "RHEL & CentOS" & "Java (JDBC)" are missing, there.

Best,
Stefan

Comment 20663

Date: 2015-02-16 10:24:31 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

(In reply to comment 3)

However,
the links under https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/Guide/Installation ---
both in the left-hand side context menu as well as at the bottom of the pape
--- still point to the outdate copies of the download pages,
and "RHEL & CentOS" & "Java (JDBC)" are missing, there.

That's all because these pages are still in Drupal and are all part of a "book". I guess the next step is to actually remove the pages.

Comment 21003

Date: 2015-07-15 16:22:53 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

(In reply to Sjoerd Mullender from comment 4)

That's all because these pages are still in Drupal and are all part of a
"book". I guess the next step is to actually remove the pages.

I have removed the book pages.