[M3devel] Getting ready for new users (Re: HEADS UP: Release engineering)

[Jay]

I tested the LINUXLIBC6 archive and it installed ok, no prompting.
 
 
I ran it with no parameters -- unlike Henrik. It did mention the current working directory (or its directory, same thing) as the install source, which confused me. Probably as long as system.tgz exists where it expects, it shouldn't say anything.
 
 
Also, even if the documentation is clear, its good to have as little to document as possible.
Be as similar to other "things" as possible so nobody needs the patience to read/understand/learn.
There is a time for that, but not when you are "about to make a sale" and user is just trying to get the thing working asap.
 
 
 - Jay


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>> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:52:06 +0200
>> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] Getting ready for new users (Re: HEADS UP: Release engineering)
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>> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
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>>> Next I run ./cminstall /usr/local/cm3
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>>> It asks mme whether /home.hendrik/cm3 is to be the root directory for
>>> cm3. The naive user doesn't know what that means. Nor do I, for that
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>> This is strange. cminstall shouldn't ask any questions by default.
>> But as mentioned before, I only built the archives for FreeBSD4 and
>> AMD64_LINUX (and later PPC_DARWIN). Jay, what exactly did you package
>> there? Or am I misunderstanding something here?
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