[Building Sakai] DRAFT: Installing git on Mac OS X

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Seriously. Forget out the purist "right way" and make the easy way the
obvious one. People are a lot less likely to give up and leave when
the instructions are not a mile long. Assume that people are busy and
looking at your project is not the most important thing in their lives
and they will thank you for it. Link to the more detailed stuff as
optional and recommended for the technically advanced.

Also, I have had zero issues with the binary version of git so far.
Not sure what all the issues you linked were about but this is my
experience.
-AZ



On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu> wrote:
> That's probably fine. Though it kind of makes it sound like you are a
> bad person ( honestly, I've been pretty happy with my click install
> version of git when I have to use OS X ).
>
> I just wish our quick start was quicker, for something that is
> essentially just a java project people are going to load into Eclipse.
>
> For instance on the K2 Getting started page couldn't we just say:
>
> git clone git://github.com/ieb/open-experiments.git
> cd open-experiments/slingtests/osgikernel # etc etc.
>
> I'm a big fan of people having ( github | bitbucket | launchpad )
> accounts, but when I want to try out someones project I really just want
> to check it out.
>
> I think it's good that we have these instructions for macports, and
> github, and whatever else, but I don't they should preclude fast
> instructions for people who just want to get the code and build it.  I
> think it's just a matter of providing relative documentation for folks
> who wish to do different amounts of customization.
>
> -s
>
> Speelmon, Lance Day wrote:
>> Okay see if this satisfies:
>>
>>
>>       Precompiled Binaries
>>
>> For those of you that do not have the patience to experience the
>> magical goodness of MacPorts, I might suggest downloading a
>> precompiled package: http://git-scm.com/download.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lance Speelmon
>> Scholarly Technologist
>>
>> On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Steven Githens wrote:
>>
>>> Probably still worth linking too though, since it's listed on their page
>>> for OS X, which makes it seems 'official like'.  I agree that macports
>>> is nice and I've used it to get The Gimp and Dia, but it seems to take a
>>> really long time, which might be too long for someone who just wants to
>>> check out 3akai and use eclipse.
>>>
>>> http://git-scm.com/download
>>>
>>> -s
>>>
>>> Speelmon, Lance Day wrote:
>>>> Yes - it may be easier, but in my experience these 3rd party
>>>> packages tend to not be well supported over time and never have the
>>>> official blessing of the parent project.  Over the years of trying
>>>> to rely on these kinds of packages, I have been sorely disappointed
>>>> as they tend to be slow to provide updates.  It makes it hard to
>>>> write documentation that can stand the test of time.  MacPorts has
>>>> been there for me from day one and has been very consistent.  Not to
>>>> mention, you only need to learn it once to get access to over 12,000
>>>> applications ported to OSX.  L
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lance Speelmon
>>>> Scholarly Technologist
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It looks ok, but you should really mention this which is much much
>>>>> much easier (and what I use).
>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/
>>>>>
>>>>> -AZ
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Speelmon, Lance Day
>>>>> <lance at indiana.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have time and interest, I would appreciate your review of a
>>>>>> new wiki
>>>>>> page:
>>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/Installing+git
>>>>>> Thanks, L
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lance Speelmon
>>>>>> Scholarly Technologist
>>>>>>
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