Re: Web: Download: Add introductory text (issue 40510046)

[David Kastrup]

Carl Peterson <address@hidden> writes:

> On Dec 16, 2013 12:16 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
>> > It was consensus that new users should actively be encouraged to
>> > download one of the complete environments, namely Frescobaldi or
>> > Denemo, which would then take care of installing LilyPond.
>>
>> Is Frescobaldi available on OSX?  It's lacking the appropriate
>> symbol on the easier-editing page.
>> ... apparently it's only available in macports.  That isn't
>> something that we should ask most users to try.
>>
>> Denemo is not available on FreeBSD or OSX (accoring to the
>> symbols) so we can't recommend it without deliberately ignoring
>> some users.  Granted, anybody using freebsd will already know how
>> things work, but we shouldn't ignore OSX users, particularly since
>> many composers prefer OSX.
>>
>
> Just thinking out loud here...would it be worth looking into tweaking the
> .htaccess file to do OS-based redirection on the download page, like many
> sites do? That way, if someone requests download.html, they are redirected
> to download-win.html if the server detects Windows, download-mac.html if it
> dectects OS X, download-nix.html for *nix, and so on, with
> download-all.html being the current page (and .htaccess silently
> redirecting here if there is no OS match). This would allow us to put all
> the information on one page for an operating system and recommend or not
> based on what is actually available.

No, based on what computer is used for downloading.  That's more than
often sufficiently different to make this a nuisance.  What we could
attempt doing is to move the entry for the purportedly detected
operating system to the top.

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David Kastrup