Re: mac osx

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Heya,

[+timcharper, owner of the git-osx-installer project]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:40, Kyle Neath <kneath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:40 PM, tom smitts <tomsmitts@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Yikes! That's definitely not good. I'll see what we can do about updating
> git-scm.com to point to a more reasonable installer for OSX. I haven't clicked
> that link in a long time and had no idea it was so confusing.
>
> I've created an issue so we can track it, if you'd like to follow along:
> https://github.com/schacon/gitscm/issues/16
>
> Kyle Neath
> Director of Design, GitHub




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Sverre Rabbelier
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