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Bug 361268

Summary:	Display Mac OS minimum requirements on downloads page
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	chris.guindon, nathan, remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.eclipse.org/downloads
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Description Wayne Beaton

2011-10-18 11:26:07 EDT

Received via emo inbox:

--
I can understand that the latest version of Eclipse doesn't work on
Mac OS 10.4. However, is it that difficult for you to clearly indicate
that on the Downloads page? Or even to check the OS version before I
download, and alert me to this fact? All it states is that I need JRE
SE 5 or greater, which I have. Rather than me needlessly downloading
and extracting a package that doesn't work on my system. 
--

From follow up conversation, a dialog appears saying "This application requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or greater." when you attempt to run downloaded MAC OS packages.

Is this intended behaviour?

Can we provide a warning as suggested on the website?

Comment 1 Nathan Gervais

2011-10-18 11:29:05 EDT

The download page is structured in a way that lets us provide notices depending on OS as we used to have a notice for linux users.  

+1 for this as its low impact.

If you can define the content for that message we can get this up.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2011-10-18 13:20:06 EDT

While we're there, I'm wondering if anyone would volunteer to update the known issues page:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/SDK_Known_Issues

I believe GCJ is no longer an issue, but I don't know for sure.

Comment 3 Wayne Beaton

2011-10-18 13:22:03 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> If you can define the content for that message we can get this up.

How about: "Eclipse requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or greater." ?

Or should we include a specific version of Eclipse?

Comment 4 Christopher Guindon

2012-12-04 14:35:10 EST

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > If you can define the content for that message we can get this up.
> 
> How about: "Eclipse requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or greater." ?
> 
> Or should we include a specific version of Eclipse?

I added the warning message for Mac OS X users on the download and developer download page : http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php?osType=macosx