Reorder and rename Windows installers to avoid people download 64bit versions
timeless
timeless at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 18:08:58 UTC 2011
On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:
> There are quite many people who don't care/know about difference between
32/64 bit systems, so they download the first installer for Windows and the
installation in most cases fail, because the first installer listed on the
http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads/ is for 64bit systems and majority
of users still have 32bit OS installed.
> To fix this quite unpleasant User eXperience you can do the following:
> 1. move 64 versions below 32 ones
> 2. rename installers from x86/x64 (which is really confusing) to
x86/x86-64
> Please, CC.
Muggs,
Please change the latest.dat x64 regexp to:
.*Windows.*(WOW|x)64.*
This should solve the problem for the majority of the people.
There is an argument for changing the sort values so that x86 precedes x64,
but I won't make that now.
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