Download page corrections
Good day, I suggest making the following changes (which I believe would be improvements) to the (English) download page
1 Under “Download for Windows”, move
Windows store
Portable version
from section “The latest stable version is 3.0’
To #Older-versions
and mention the version / architecture (where relevant) explicitly in the link text, e.g.
MuseScore 2.3.2 on the Windows Store
(not sure if it is the latest 2.x, since one cannot tell from the store page
MuseScore 2.3.2 32-bit Portable version
2 Under “Download AppImage”, change
Suitable for all Linux distributions
To
Suitable for all 64-bit Linux distributions
3 At #Older-versions, add
For Mac OS X 10.7+ 64-bit: MuseScore 2.3.2
For Windows XP or higher (32-bit): MuseScore 2.3.2
4 At #Development-builds
Change link text “macOS 10.12 or higher OS X 10.8–10.11”
To “macOS 10.12 or higher”
# Reason: <10.12 not compatible with nightlies.
5 Link text “x86 32-bit”links to http://prereleases.musescore.org/linux/nightly/armhf/
# wrong architecture. Suggest - remove link text & link
6 Link text “ARMv7 or higher (Builds not active at present)” - suggest removing it or commenting it out until builds are available again.
7 Section #Minimum-requiremments
Windows 7 or higher.
To
64-bit Windows 7 or higher (no dot at the end)
8 Change
macOS 10.12+, OS X 10.8–10.11, Mac OS X 10.7
To
macOS 10.12 or higher
# Reasons:
# make it consistent with other places where “or higher” is used instead of a maths symbol.
# pre-10.12 not supported
9 I would also suggest adding Table of contents to download page. I admit it detracts from the clean look for people only looking for the lastest version, but it will make the page a lot easier to navigate for people looking for newer than latest (dev/preview), or older than lates.
Comments
"MuseScore 2.3.2 on the Windows Store"
"(not sure if it is the latest 2.x, since one cannot tell from the store page"
I'm on Win 10 right now and installed MuseScore via Windows Store, so yes 2.3.2 is the latest.
In reply to "MuseScore 2.3.2 on the… by ericfontainejazz
I wonder how the store handles 2 major MuseScore versions that can coexist. I wouldn't want the newer to replace the older, want to keep both
In reply to I wonder how the store… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well my guess is the store would allow two different versions to coexist, and I would agree that should keep up the current MuseScore 2 application. So it is just a matter of adding a new application MuseScore 3 to the store.
In reply to Well my guess is the store… by ericfontainejazz
According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/create-your-app-by… it seems that each app you publish must have a unique name. And it appears to me very clear that the current app there is called "MuseScore 2" rather than simply "MuseScore". So it seems perfectly possible to have both "MuseScore 2" and "MuseScore 3" up there co-existing. It is just a matter of adding it.
In reply to According to https://docs… by ericfontainejazz
Indeed, lasconic named it MuseScore 2 back in the days for this reason.