[ADMB Users] downloads page organization

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 17:50:54 PST 2012


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  Watching a student get confused today trying to download ADMB, I
came up with a couple of thoughts about the download page
http://www.admb-project.org/downloads/ ...

 * the navigation sidebar still lists admb 10.1 downloads etc. even
though the page refers to admb 11
 * the table of binary distribution links has an empty "size and
checksum" column, some blank rows at the bottom, and missing links for
the Intel C++ 12 and Linux 32/64 bit options
 * for a beginning user I think it's pretty hard to see that the
easiest way to get everything you need is to download the ADMB IDE.
Could the IDE be a little bit more prominently featured/described?
 * it looks like the IDE hasn't yet incorporated ADMB 11 ?
(http://code.google.com/p/admb-project/downloads/list?&q=admb-ide)
 * is the IDE Windows-only?  There is a "ADMB-IDE zip (Windows 32-bit,
Linux, Mac OS)" link, but since the file name is
admb-ide-101-win32.zip I wasn't sure if it was really a cross-platform
installation, or what to do with it ...

  (that said, once we downloaded the IDE installer it was indeed
trivially easy to install on Windows with a few clicks)

  Ben Bolker
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