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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Anton Mladenov <anton.g.mladenov@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrong Version On The Website ?
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:34:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325053455.GB651138@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200325001258.GJ6499@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:12:58AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> The Mac and Windows builds linked to from the website are provided by
> third parties.  The Git project itself only provides source releases.
> While the Windows builds are usually released around the same time as
> the main source releases, the Mac builds sometimes take longer, since
> they're done by a volunteer.
> 
> If you're interested in the latest release, I recommend trying Homebrew,
> as they tend to be a little more up to date.

I think the web page could do a much better job of making this clear:

 - mentioning homebrew and possibly other sources on the /download/mac
   page

 - make it clear that the binary builds are provided by a 3rd party;
   they may lag official releases (and are not themselves official; I've
   never heard any complaints about them differing in behavior from what
   Git devs would expect, but I don't think anybody from this list is
   really actively paying attention to them either).

Patches welcome (we take PRs at https://github.com/git/git-scm.com).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-25  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24 19:20 Wrong Version On The Website ? Anton Mladenov
2020-03-25  0:12 ` brian m. carlson
2020-03-25  5:34   ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-03-25  9:53     ` Anton Mladenov

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