Confusing Downloads section
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 11:21 am
https://namecoin.info/download/ doesn't have arch info unless (which I discovered 10 mins too late) one clicks on Grab Binaries.
Having an architecture for which there are no binaries, I tried adding both Debian and Ubuntu repos and after I while I realized that armhf may not be supported.
Perhaps that section - or even the home page that sends people to that page - could be reworked a bit to make it clear what is supported.
On the Github page README.md (https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin-co ... /README.md) still has no info how to build, so a person new to Namecoin can easily waste more time (if they download a non-nc* release) there.
This time I wasted 10 mins on trying to download a binary package, but before I had wasted 1+ hour on troubleshooting a non-nc release from the github repo (I avoided that mistake this time, but there may be other users whose first attempt may be equally fruitless so watch out folks.)
Having an architecture for which there are no binaries, I tried adding both Debian and Ubuntu repos and after I while I realized that armhf may not be supported.
Perhaps that section - or even the home page that sends people to that page - could be reworked a bit to make it clear what is supported.
On the Github page README.md (https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin-co ... /README.md) still has no info how to build, so a person new to Namecoin can easily waste more time (if they download a non-nc* release) there.
This time I wasted 10 mins on trying to download a binary package, but before I had wasted 1+ hour on troubleshooting a non-nc release from the github repo (I avoided that mistake this time, but there may be other users whose first attempt may be equally fruitless so watch out folks.)