Re: Wrong Version On The Website ?

From: Anton Mladenov <anton.g.mladenov@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 25, 2020, 09:53 UTC
Message-ID: <701EAC93-99E2-4D7E-A991-857A7CB82E6C@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200325053455.GB651138@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi all,

@Brian - thanks for your quick email. I will use Homebrew this time.

@Jeff - thanks for your attention.

Stay home, stay safe! Cheers!

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> On 25 Mar 2020, at 06:34, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:12:58AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 
>> The Mac and Windows builds linked to from the website are provided by
>> third parties.  The Git project itself only provides source releases.
>> While the Windows builds are usually released around the same time as
>> the main source releases, the Mac builds sometimes take longer, since
>> they're done by a volunteer.
>> 
>> If you're interested in the latest release, I recommend trying Homebrew,
>> as they tend to be a little more up to date.
> 
> I think the web page could do a much better job of making this clear:
> 
> - mentioning homebrew and possibly other sources on the /download/mac
>   page
> 
> - make it clear that the binary builds are provided by a 3rd party;
>   they may lag official releases (and are not themselves official; I've
>   never heard any complaints about them differing in behavior from what
>   Git devs would expect, but I don't think anybody from this list is
>   really actively paying attention to them either).
> 
> Patches welcome (we take PRs at https://github.com/git/git-scm.com).
> 
> -Peff