Carl Peterson <carlopeter...@gmail.com> writes: > On Dec 16, 2013 12:16 AM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> > 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. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
