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

His answer was inappropriate. Our goal must be to understand
problems posed, check relevance, figure out a solution. There
is no other default mode. 



On Aug 11, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Jay McCarthy 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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