From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!gy7opw3oYmwPg+L8gXeD2w.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: how to install Alire ada on Linux? Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:04:03 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86o7rkpvbw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <80f2f50e-bd5c-4a4d-9806-626d18797fefn@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="45720"; posting-host="gy7opw3oYmwPg+L8gXeD2w.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rjzDycuRYh4W/1+9hKAgIBnhXQM= Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64745 List-Id: "Nasser M. Abbasi" writes: > On 12/28/2022 3:26 AM, Egil H H wrote: >> On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 1:20:18 AM UTC+1, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >>> I went to https://alire.ada.dev/ >>> >>> It says at the top "download Alire for windows". >>> >>> No linux button. Only windows. >>> >> I guess you're visiting the site using a Windows computer. On my >> Linux computer the button says Linux... >> > > OMG, are you saying they designed the web site to show the botton > based on which OS one is using at the time?? Yes. That's a common design for most "install" websites these days (Firefox for example). It caters to web/computer newbies. We could argue that existing Ada users are _not_ newbies, but we are trying to attract more people to the language, so I think this is a good choice. > Who designed this site? This makes no sense at all. They should > show all bottons for all OS's regrdless. It should be easier to navigate to the "all installers" page. -- -- Stephe