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

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Jason Harris <jason at jasonfharris.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
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>> I noticed some unexpected behavior on http://mercurial.selenic.com/ with 32 bit XP.
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>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11)
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>> The page contains a highlighted box with:
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>>       Download now
>>       Mercurial 1.7.3
>>       TortoiseHg 1.1.8 with
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>> 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 .
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>> 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.
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> How about we have a link to the GUI tools off the downloads page for all of the GUI tools?
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> What do GUI clients need to comply with in order to get space on the downloads page?
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> 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.

-- 
Steve Borho