Feature request: Add consistent per-platform download permalinks
Request:
Create reliable and permanent per-platform download links for the latest release version of Inkscape.
Perhaps:
- https://inkscape.org/download/linux/ (*)
- https://inkscape.org/download/windows/ (*)
- https://inkscape.org/download/mac/
or
- https://inkscape.org/release/linux/
- https://inkscape.org/release/windows/
- https://inkscape.org/release/mac/
(*) It should be noted that https://inkscape.org/download/linux/ and https://inkscape.org/download/windows/ both presently redirect to https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/ .
Rationale:
Various types of Inkscape documentation, including the Inkscape Beginners' Guide, have links and instructions for downloading Inkscape. Some of these guides are very specific and give instructions for beginners on how to download or install Inkscape on a specific platform.
Presently, such guides need to either:
- Link to the main Inkscape download page (e.g., https://inkscape.org/download ), and then have a separate instruction for the user to click on the right download page specific to their platform, or
- Link to the download for a specific version and platform, e.g., https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/mac-os-x/1010-1015/dl/
Neither of these is particularly good. Release names change regularly, which increases the difficulty of keeping documentation up to date if using method (2). Method (1) is an extra step, which adds user-experience friction. While a minor barrier, everything that we can do to make the experience better for new users is a positive step.
Adding platform-specific download links will also save a couple of images and a couple of pages in the and a couple of extra pages in the Inkscape Beginners' Guide.
Precedent:
https://inkscape.org/download already points to https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/
Likewise,
https://inkscape.org/release/ points to https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/
This second permanent link ( https://inkscape.org/release/ ) is the one used on the main inkscape.org home page, under Download > Current version.
Both sets of suggested permanent links -- phrased like https://inkscape.org/download/linux/ or https://inkscape.org/release/linux/ -- seem like natural and fitting extension of this.