Issues with download from http://mercurial.selenic.com/

[Jason Harris]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 2:26 AM, Steve Borho wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Jason Harris <jason at jasonfharris.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>> 
>>> I noticed some unexpected behavior on http://mercurial.selenic.com/ with 32 bit XP.
>>> 
>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11)
>>> 
>>> The page contains a highlighted box with:
>>> 
>>>       Download now
>>>       Mercurial 1.7.3
>>>       TortoiseHg 1.1.8 with
>>> 
>>> The link shown when pointing the mouse there is "http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads", but clicking on "Mercurial 1.7.3" starts download of tortoisehg-1.1.8-hg-1.7.3-x64.msi .
>>> 
>>> 1. TortoiseHg is an excellent tool, but I would expect the default download on Mercurials web page to be what the Mercurial project supports. TortoiseHg could be recommended as an alternative download with a "this is something else" comment.
>> 
>> How about we have a link to the GUI tools off the downloads page for all of the GUI tools?
>> 
>> What do GUI clients need to comply with in order to get space on the downloads page?
>> 
>> After I go 1.0 with MacHg (any day now...) I wouldn't mind updating updating MacHg so I do point releases for new Mercurial versions...
> 
> See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BinaryReleasePlan
> 
> The nutshell is you create a latest.dat file and let it be known here
> how it can be retrieved.

Thanks!

Cheers,
  Jas