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Bug 211910

Summary:	Download page fails to recognize x86_64 architecture
Product:	Community	Reporter:	David Mohr <bugs>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
URL:	http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Whiteboard:

Description David Mohr

2007-12-04 14:13:07 EST

So I went to download eclipse, and it didn't correctly identify my architecture. Unfortunately the error message was not highlighted enough for me to notice (could this maybe be printed in red, because it's highly likely the user will download the wrong package when the autodetection failed).

On the page I get the error:

We were unable to find Eclipse packages for your platform (linux-x64).

uname -a:
Linux eta 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 #3 SMP Wed Sep 26 13:54:04 MDT 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2007-12-04 15:22:53 EST

Actually, the download page *does* correctly identify your Linux x86_64 platform, but I guess I missed the memo that the packaging project was now producing Linux x86_64 packages (Eclipse itself has been running on Linux x86_64 for centuries, but the JEE/C++ IDE/etc packages were not available until recently).

I fixed this.

Comment 2 David Mohr

2007-12-04 15:27:04 EST

Almost working :-).

So the main link, i.e. "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers - Linux x86_64 (78 MB)" is correct, but when I click on the right of that on "Linux" you still get the 32bit version.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2007-12-04 15:34:03 EST

(In reply to comment #2)
> Almost working :-).
> 
> So the main link, i.e. "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers - Linux x86_64 (78 MB)"
> is correct, but when I click on the right of that on "Linux" you still get the
> 32bit version.

That's intended -- we want the "top-3" platforms there, regardless of your current browser's architecture. Although we could change the label to "Linux 32bit" that would add significant clutter, when the same logic could also be said about the Windows link (Win32 vs. Win64).

I'll re-close this as fixed, as everything is working as expected.

Comment 4 David Mohr

2007-12-04 15:42:10 EST

Ok, if this is as intended... but from my point of view this is confusing.
The Windows, Linux, Mac links to me seem to be labeled by the bigger text on the left, and thus I'd expect to also get the 64bit version under that Linux link.

If you really want to keep it that way, could you maybe create a header for that "column", to the right of "Eclipse Europa Fall Maintenance Packages - Linux x86_64   (compare packages)"? That could provide clarification without cluttering up the page.