Simplifying the Downloads page

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 25/09/2009 16:35, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Well, you made it so you can't actually get a download without tracking
> through to another page. Which is ok, but not great.

It is a general tendency for portable software with lot of variants, like Eclipse.
Well, the latter is worse (although it improved!) because it has so many variants that you 
spend lot of time to find out which one you need!

> Also, we explicitly want the link to all old downloads. It was a request
> from people using easy_install with bzr. I don't remember exactly why it
> was necessary, but it was requested.
> 
> At the time, I think we wanted to find a way to put it into a 'hidden'
> div, so that the data was there for scrapers, but hidden for humans.

That's still a long page to load (minor issue in today's Internet, I know) for no real 
usefulness for most visitors... Why the "old downloads" page (beyond, say, 2 or 3 recent 
versions) isn't just separated?
But well, hiding the information (while leaving a way to unhide it for those really 
interested for some old version) is a viable compromise, I suppose.

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