I would really appreciate it if the Maple IDE downloads were called something meaningful.
I'd like the download name to work so that I don't need to rename it when I save it in a directory with other Maple-IDE versions.
For example maple-ide-LATEST-macosx-10_6.dmg fails; it tells me it is for macosx-10.6, but not the version. Further, if I save it into the directory of previous versions, it overwrites. This is not helpful.
It does not explicitly tell me which version it contains.
Also I can't tell if it is a stable version or an update or snapshot. This can be solved by an explicit, policy statement, e.g. 'this list only contains stable releases, and we will always change the release name for every update'.
So I have to rename the file every time I download. That is unhelpful.
Worse, reading the rest of the download page, I can't tell what version of the IDE the file contains, so it isn't clear what to name the file. See for yourself. Go to the download page http://leaflabs.com/docs/maple-ide-install.html
Can you figure out from that page which version this is? I can't.
I can't even tell if I have that same 'latest' version installed on my machine already!
Please fix this, it was never okay, but has become counter productive now people are reporting something working with one version of the IDE and not another. I can't (trivially) help check when something was broken, or try to offer a work around. Further, if the problem is fixed by reverting to a previous version, there is no simple way for the OP to get that.
So, would you please keep the download files for previous stable versions? That way we can check when something appears to be broken and help. The Arduino folks keep a history making it very easy to see when things changed.
It would be even better if you also bundled up the source of the release, and used a common naming convention.
Please do NOT respond that it is all in the git repository. IMHO that is an inadequate answer. The releases which LeafLabs have bundled together are the definitive file sets. The git repository has several subsets for the IDE and the libraries, and you should not require folks to dig through git branches to get to a release set. (I do not think it should be a requirement to install yet another application just to compare behaviour of two released versions of Maple-IDE.)
