Re: Web: Download: Add introductory text (issue 40510046)

[Carl Peterson]

On Dec 16, 2013 12:16 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
> > It was consensus that new users should actively be encouraged to
> > download one of the complete environments, namely Frescobaldi or
> > Denemo, which would then take care of installing LilyPond.
>
> Is Frescobaldi available on OSX?  It's lacking the appropriate
> symbol on the easier-editing page.
> ... apparently it's only available in macports.  That isn't
> something that we should ask most users to try.
>
> Denemo is not available on FreeBSD or OSX (accoring to the
> symbols) so we can't recommend it without deliberately ignoring
> some users.  Granted, anybody using freebsd will already know how
> things work, but we shouldn't ignore OSX users, particularly since
> many composers prefer OSX.
>

Just thinking out loud here...would it be worth looking into tweaking the .htaccess file to do OS-based redirection on the download page, like many sites do? That way, if someone requests download.html, they are redirected to download-win.html if the server detects Windows, download-mac.html if it dectects OS X, download-nix.html for *nix, and so on, with download-all.html being the current page (and .htaccess silently redirecting here if there is no OS match). This would allow us to put all the information on one page for an operating system and recommend or not based on what is actually available.

Carl P.