Hey, On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Timothy Harper <timcharper@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! > > Good point, I'll update the description to include "32-bit" and "64-bit" Honestly this doesn't help much. I think the point is that these numbers or machs are not in any of the docs or ads I can think of for macs. I feel pretty stupid admitting this to this list, but I honestly don't know which macs are 32 bit - I assume the MBP is 64, but if someone challenged me I'm not sure I could really defend it. Not that I'm the smartest guy in the world, but I have been using *NIX for a long damn time - it's just that Apple doesn't really use that as much of a selling point - it's not like the old days when nerds like us would buy the CPU at the store and it said "64-bit" on it - you buy a mac, maybe you know it's a Core Duo or i5/i7 but how are you supposed to know that means 64-bit? I suppose a real geek would, and maybe I've fallen out of that category somehow, but honestly chipset has been so unimportant these days when compared to disk type and speed (SSD, etc), memory size, etc - I just don't follow the incremental improvements anymore. Even I don't really keep up with the chipset specs to know - I can't imagine anyone using the dmg installer instead of brew would have the slightest idea what 64-bit even means. And in our defense, the march is nowhere on this entire tech spec page for a MBP: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html So maybe you care enough to see that the chipset is an i7, so you google it and end up on the intel i7 page: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/core-i7-processor.html Nope, no march there either. I had to specifically find the wikipedia page for the processor which lists it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core#Core_i7 And 3/4 of the way down a huge page and only as a passing reference. The point being - almost nobody that clicks on the DMG link from the git-scm website is going to know what bit architecture they're running on. > Kyle, I'll put 32-bit and 64-bit in the description. Somebody mentioned linking to the featured download list as well in that issue, that's a good recommendation. > I link to the featured downloads from git-scm.com front page as the huge mac icon - I assume that's where most people land when they're looking for a mac installer. And on that page you have "Leopard" and "Snow Leopard" on each download, which is WAY more common for people to know. What I should probably do is have a dropdown thingy on git-scm that asks you what kind of mac you have and what OS you are running (whatever I can't get from the browser info) and just auto-download the right one so they never have to see the google downloads page. That would, however, take Google having an api or me scraping that page, which I'll have to look into. Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html