Have a single http://fsharp.org/use that detects platform

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Have a single http://fsharp.org/use that detects platform #3

Closed dsyme closed 7 years ago

dsyme commented 7 years ago

The "install F#" experience is clunky, and there is no single URL to point people to like http://fsharp.org/use. (I point people to http://fsharp.org instead). This URL should detect platform and make a default one-click install link available for the #1 option for linux/mac/windows/..., plus other options

lenadroid commented 7 years ago

Thanks for bringing this up, Don!

mathias-brandewinder commented 7 years ago

[personal opinion, not the board's opinion] +100 to that suggestion. Detecting platform would be nice, but at the very least having one page/url to direct people to would be very handy. In the current state of affairs, there is no good landing point/url, which requires giving newcomers instructions like "go to fsharp.org, look for the use menu, then follow the instructions".

baronfel commented 7 years ago

A simple solution would be to host a page at /use that uses something like https://github.com/antivanov/sniffr to determine OS and redirect to the appropriate page.

FSSF commented 7 years ago

This is being moved to be part of the overall website discussion: https://github.com/fsharp/fsfoundation/issues/681

For details, please see https://github.com/fsharp/fsfoundation/issues/680