[racket-dev] Downloading DrRacket for Mac is hard?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 11 09:02:31 EDT 2011

I'm not completely clear on exactly how things are working with Lion,
but it seems unlikely that 64 bit is a good default at this stage.

Robby

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe Eli is saying that 64bit is really the better default, given new
> OS X defaults.
>
> Jay
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> Why would it damage more people?
>>
>> I think it makes sense to put on the first page some kind of an
>> indication that "this is what we guess your machine is; if you don't
>> know, try this one first". Perhaps not Guillaume's exact words, but
>> something that would help this person.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Guillaume Marceau <gmarceau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Does the combo box auto detect the
>>>> downloader's platform for the User-Agent header.
>>>
>>> Yes, in some cases when it's possible to make a guess.
>>>
>>>
>>>> If so, then the next
>>>> step is to change the layout to:
>>>>
>>>>      Download:  __Macintosh OS X (Intel i386)__
>>>>      (this is the version of DrRacket for your system. In rare cases,
>>>> you might need a version for a __different system__)
>>>
>>> This will damage many more people.
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