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How do i upgrade 0.8.0 to 0.8.2? I have downloaded the zip...
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"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
I use windows and want to upgarde my version of 0.8.0 to 0.8.2. Are you saying that i should uninstall the 0.8.0, and then install the version 0.8.2?
I´m sorry for being this stupid but please have some patience with me...
Read about the adventurers of my pen & paper RPG group
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
We are asking these questions because Wesnoth is not running only on Windows... Wesnoth runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS, Sun Solaris, BSD, and even Microsoft Windows.
Maybe you should download the Wesnoth 0.8.2 for Windows (exe):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wesn ... e?download
- Miyo
Maybe you should download the Wesnoth 0.8.2 for Windows (exe):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wesn ... e?download
- Miyo
OH! now i get it!!!!! i had the wesnoth-0.8.2.tar witch was for Linux, Right? If so why i can`t download the .exe from the downloads section?
Is this game so heavily played by linux users so that you can`t have the .exe version in the most logical place??
Is this game so heavily played by linux users so that you can`t have the .exe version in the most logical place??
Read about the adventurers of my pen & paper RPG group
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
The .exe file is in the downloads section under Binaries. It should be easily downloadable.
We continue to have the problem that new players don't know the difference between binaries and source code, and so they download the source code and wonder why it doesn't play. Perhaps we should be more explicit about the differences between source code and binaries. As we get more popular, morepeople who have no knowledge of programming or compiling are trying to play Wesnoth.
We continue to have the problem that new players don't know the difference between binaries and source code, and so they download the source code and wonder why it doesn't play. Perhaps we should be more explicit about the differences between source code and binaries. As we get more popular, morepeople who have no knowledge of programming or compiling are trying to play Wesnoth.
Yeah everybody can`t be a coder after all....
I suggest that the coding stuff is removed from the downloads sections front page and put under some link. The actual game downloads (for all platforms, off course) should be the only thing downloadble(I like inventing my own words ) in downloads sections front page
I suggest that the coding stuff is removed from the downloads sections front page and put under some link. The actual game downloads (for all platforms, off course) should be the only thing downloadble(I like inventing my own words ) in downloads sections front page
Read about the adventurers of my pen & paper RPG group
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Guess who?
Wesnoth project officially provides just the source code... all binaries/packages/executables are contributions. If for some reason we do not have u$win builder or Mac OS X porter then there will be no binary/package/executable for that platform.
e.g. official and primary Mac OS X porter has been busy and currently on vacation so Mac OS X player community has had to build unofficial package for Mac OS X players.
Same can be true for any platform in the future... if BeOS porter does not port Wesnoth for BeOS then there will be no BeOS port.
By the way, do you see any GNU/Linux binaries or packages? No, because we don't provide them.
- Miyo
e.g. official and primary Mac OS X porter has been busy and currently on vacation so Mac OS X player community has had to build unofficial package for Mac OS X players.
Same can be true for any platform in the future... if BeOS porter does not port Wesnoth for BeOS then there will be no BeOS port.
By the way, do you see any GNU/Linux binaries or packages? No, because we don't provide them.
- Miyo
IMHO the page is clear only if you know what the terms 'Source Code' and 'Binaries' mean, and many people do not.
I don't think we need to break things into 'Source Code' and 'binaries' at all. We could just have,
'Wesnoth for Windows'
'Wesnoth for MacOSX'
'Wesnoth Source Code'
'Wesnoth for other platforms...'
I think that is succinct and clear. Anyone who knows what source code and binaries are will know that the versions for certain platforms are binaries.
David
I don't think we need to break things into 'Source Code' and 'binaries' at all. We could just have,
'Wesnoth for Windows'
'Wesnoth for MacOSX'
'Wesnoth Source Code'
'Wesnoth for other platforms...'
I think that is succinct and clear. Anyone who knows what source code and binaries are will know that the versions for certain platforms are binaries.
David
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The first link should be for those people who have greatest probability to click the first link without too much reading. This is: "MS Windows Binaries".
People who do not know what "Source Code" and "Binaries" mean, probably want to download binaries. Therefore binaries should go first. Anyway, these days probably more people download Wesnoth binaries than source code. (That's not only players -- designers and translators also do not need source code that much.)
Instead of "Binaries" we should probably use something like "Install"...
People who do not know what "Source Code" and "Binaries" mean, probably want to download binaries. Therefore binaries should go first. Anyway, these days probably more people download Wesnoth binaries than source code. (That's not only players -- designers and translators also do not need source code that much.)
Instead of "Binaries" we should probably use something like "Install"...