Sounds like it is time for Guillaume to explore a prototype, if he's still interested in that, then.
Robby On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > About a minute ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> >> Eli, I must say I appreciate some of your concerns but some >> I don't comprehend. >> >> (1) My hunch is that most of our downloaders -- especially >> technically unsavy (what's the right word here?) people -- >> download one and only one thing from us. > > Yes. > > >> (2) We need to accommodate them mostly, not the people who >> understand language packages. > > Right -- which is why I suggest no additional verbiage. Just a more > emphasized "download" button. > > >> (3) If it works for FF/Mozilla, why should it not work for us? >> Could we write a program that 'steals and adapts' their dowmload >> code on a regular base and thus keeps ours uptodate for the next >> N years? > > Not really. The thing is that our code does more -- it does the > sorting that I talked about (so when you do get to click the platform > combo box, you'll see the more relevant choices at the beginning). > I'll do something rough in a minute and will post when it's up. > > Ideally, there would be some random JS library that could be included > that would give a precise guess, but that can't work in general > because of some of the problems I mentioned earlier (like Windows > x86_64 users who want to get the 32 bit version). I didn't see > anything close to what we need for that at the time, so we have the > current code. (And that code *is* based on the mozilla code that does > the guessing, but tweaked to make that sorting possible.) > > (Again, I think that just a more obvious download button would do most > of the work. The exact guess is needed only to eliminate the combo > box completely.) > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
