[Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

[tonym]

I agree with Aaron's assessment...

The message was great, but the delivery kinda' sucked :) 



SMILE Aaron !!! That was meant as a joke!!



As suggested, I would also link to the active projects, and if you insist on hosting them, make sure they are called-out as previous non-supported version.

Gillaume, in no way should you take these comments as a slight; what you do is great, we're just suggesting a better way for the projects that are still active and supported.



Tony
tonym at compusource.net


---- Original Message ----
From: "Nick Marentes" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
Sent: 5/26/2014 8:45:23 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

On 27/05/2014 10:36 AM, Guillaume Major wrote:
>
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> I understand your frustration about this issue. You work very hard to 
> develop wonderful software for the coco and you put a lot of efforts 
> to write good documentation. DriveWire and NitrOS-9 are in constant 
> evolution and can cause some users to use old or obsolete versions.
>
> I think the best solution to this problem, as others have suggested, 
> is to add a section in the archive to list the active projects and 
> provide links to their respective web sites. The developper's web site 
> will get more visibility and the end user will always have access to 
> the latest version.
>
> In the meantime, I will remove DriveWire, Nitros-9 and LWTools from 
> the repository until it can be re-added to the new section.
>
> Guillaume


Excellent Guillaume!

To satisfy those that oppose this, you could have a page set up and 
clearly marked as "old versions repository" and supply a link to the 
current developers site.

This gives those that want access to old versions all within the one 
repository AND newcomers will be made aware that they are out-of-date 
versions and be redirected to the developers site.

Nick

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