Re: mac osx

[Timothy Harper <timcharper@gmail.com>]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 04:34, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Heya,
> 
> [+timcharper, owner of the git-osx-installer project]
> 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:40, Kyle Neath <kneath@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:40 PM, tom smitts <tomsmitts@ymail.com> 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"

>>>  Why make mac installers at all?

Why, to install git on the mac, of course. Previous to Xcode 4.0, it wasn't included. It still has value for those that want git on their machine but haven't downloaded and installed the 4gb Xcode package.

>>>  Mac users
>>> know their operating system number, e.g. 10.6.7,
>>> and that's all.

I am a mac user. I know much more than the operating system number.

>>>  I doubt Windows users know any better.

Fair enough.

>>> And I doubt you can find anywhere on a mac that says
>>>  i386 or whatever the heck the other dumb
>>> designation is.

Sure you can. For example:

timcharper@timtheenchanter:~/Desktop $ file /bin/bash 
/bin/bash: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/bin/bash (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/bin/bash (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386


That "dumb designation" is the march (machine architecture). It's a standard to label packages that way in the unix packaging world. I suppose many of us have just grown up knowing that from our experience compiling software.

Based on the way you've approached your complaining, I get the impression you aren't one of those linux users. Perhaps take a deep breath and take some valium for more tact next time? We're volunteers here. I'm trying to make your life better, not more miserable than it already 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

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.

> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sverre Rabbelier

Cheers! Be happy! Go pet a puppy!

Tim