swc-windows-installer.py: Generalize msysGit download link
authorW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:01:01 +0000 (10:01 -0700)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:01:01 +0000 (10:01 -0700)
SWC's current setup instructions use both "Git for Windows" and "Git
Bash" [1].  They link to the Git for Windows installer [2] and not the
msysGit installer [3].  Since SWC has Make lessons [4], I think it
makes more sense to have students installing msysGit (which has Make
[5]) than to have them install Git for Windows (which does not have
Make [6]).

However, none of this matters for *this* Windows installer.  Because
this script works with both the full msysGit and the minimal Git for
Windows, I'm sticking to msysGit (the more generic project name), and
generalizing the suggested link to
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list.

[1]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/blob/5c26313b0525e9d0b911d9558592a9e33cd03c1e/_includes/setup.html#L86
[2]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+installer+official+git
[3]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=installer+hack+on+git
[4]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/tree/master/intermediate/make
[5]: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit#the-build-environment
[6]: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit#the-relationship-between-msysgit-and-git-for-windows

swc-windows-installer.py

index b305138b7f73ff4b98e142dbabeeb03cc2078f11..e76f54d60708185e423bb84fd8156552c559f96b 100755 (executable)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ To use:
    the Anaconda CE Python distribution
    http://continuum.io/anacondace.html
 2. Install msysgit
-   http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+installer+official+git
+   http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
 3. Run swc_windows_installer.py
    You should be able to simply double click the file in Windows