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OSX Packages very confusing #16

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kneath opened this issue Sep 21, 2011 · 4 comments
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OSX Packages very confusing #16

kneath opened this issue Sep 21, 2011 · 4 comments

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@kneath
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kneath commented Sep 21, 2011

From the git mailing list:

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:40 PM, tom smitts [email protected] wrote:

Do the git maintainers really think any mac users have
 a clue which git install package to download?  You
put some arcane chipset designation in the package
 name!  Why make mac installers at all?  Mac users
know their operating system number, e.g. 10.6.7,
and that's all.  I doubt Windows users know any better.
And I doubt you can find anywhere on a mac that says
 i386 or whatever the heck the other dumb
designation is.

I definitely feel his pain, the link we use for the OSX binaries is confusing beyond belief. We should maybe cultivate a custom list of binaries?

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peff commented Sep 21, 2011

I don't know what Mac people are used to, but maybe it makes sense to
distribute a "net installer" that looks at uname to get the OS version
and architecture, and that just pulls down and installs the appropriate
binary package.

@kneath
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kneath commented Sep 21, 2011

That'd be rad. We could do the same with Javascript as well I believe.

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Another problem is that it lists all the packages for all the versions ever made, which is very overwhelming. It would be better to link to the "Featured" label, which seems to show only the most recent ones:

http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list?q=label:Featured

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mjg commented Sep 21, 2011

The easiest solution is use a better summary (and the featured selection as per SR). Just look at the neat GitOnWin list:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3

The google code page for GitOnMac might also change sooner than git-scm.com...

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