[PATCH 0 of 3 hg-website] move website toward sources.js

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 11/22/2010 05:09 PM, David Soria Parra wrote:
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> On 22.11.2010 17:06, Steve Borho wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:48 AM, David Champion<dgc at uchicago.edu>  wrote:
>>> * On 22 Nov 2010, David Soria Parra wrote:
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>>> Steve (maybe Adrian?) can say for sure, but I think that's the THG
>>> source distribution, so it is applicable on many platforms.  It's also
>>> low priority (high priority number), so it will not be selected first
>>> on the main download page for anyone with a platform-specific matching
>>> download.
>>>
>>> You could make a case for THG source being less wanted than original
>>> Mercurial source though, or for having it say explicitly that it's
>>> source.
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>> The TortoiseHg tarball will work on any system with Python and PyGtk.
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> At the moment TortoiseHG is prefered over the source tarball on Linux. I
> would rather prefer to have the source as the primary download for
> Linux/Unix users.

The best way for a Linux user to get started is probably to use the 
packages provided by the distribution. Perhaps the users distribution 
could be detected and some distribution-specific help could be shown?

/Mads