Re: [libreoffice-website] Download page

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Carlos Jenkins <hastciberneo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Check the one used by Miro at line 157 of the source code:
>
> www.getmiro.com
>
> My recommendations:
> 1. Try not to hard to find "PPC Mac OS X" or something like that, try to
> find something small, just like "Win" or "Mac" or something like that.

Now is Win and Mac.



> 2. Also, always provide an "else", if did you found "Linux" or "X11" at
> least give me the option to download the source code tarball, or even
> better, set a default package (I vote for .deb xD jejeje). I prefer that the
> script offers me wrongly a rpm that anything.

For unknown linuxes let's guess Ubuntu because they are more and their
distro-awareness is probably often lower.



> 3. Also, separate the architecture from the OS detection and put it in the
> first level of the algorythm.
>
> Like so:
>
> Check for "PPC", if found, you already know is MAC, so, why to search for
> "Mac"? Already display for Mac PPC.
> Then, check for 64bits, i think it was "x86_64"
> 1. Found? Good, now search for the OS.
> 2. Not found? Good, it's 32bits (no need to search nothing). Now search for
> the OS.
>
> // OS Seach:
> "Win"/"Windows" -:: Ok, found.
> "Mac" -:: Ok, found.
> ELSE (Linux by default (you can search for "X11"/"Linux" if you want))
> -- Now decide if it's RPM or DEB
> ---- Search for "SLED", "Fedora", etc of the distros that use RPM. (Check
> this one http://banshee.fm/theme/js/download.js)
> ---- Not found? Ok, DEB. (As the Banshee link, if specific distros
> instrucciones exists, we can search for that specific distro here)
>
> :D
>
> I think is a smarter algorythm. Sorry for the pseudocode, I'm in a hurry, I
> hope you can understand it.

O_O

Master.

You just *logarithmed* the *algorithm*.

See:
http://vipinnova.com/libreoffice/download/package-negotiation.js



> OS, Arch detection si black magic, we will never get there 100%, but al
> least improve the one we have.
>
> This site is very usefull:
> http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php

It is!



> This is for Firefox
> http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Firefox/
>
> As you can see, sometimes "Debian" is in the user string, sometimes not. And
> that also happens with others distros.
>
> Kind regards
>
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OK now, I took the most popular distros from
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
and made this:

        if (ua.indexOf('Ubuntu') > -1 ||
                ua.indexOf('Mint') > -1 ||
                ua.indexOf('Debian') > -1 ||
                ua.indexOf('Arch') > -1)        return 'deb';

        if (ua.indexOf('Fedora') > -1 ||
                ua.indexOf('SUSE') > -1 ||
                ua.indexOf('PCLinuxOS') > -1 ||
                ua.indexOf('Mandriva') > -1)    return 'rpm';

Does anyone know if any of these package manager associations is wrong?

And, about the user agent infixes, I'm not sure of it for Arch. I'd
say the rest are OK.



Thank you!

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