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

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

>
> 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.

Strange.

Hendrik, can you reproduce the strange message? And then perhaps
provide a system call trace (ktrace, truss, whatever)?

Olaf

> 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
>
>
> ________________________________
>>
>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
>>>
>>>> Next I run ./cminstall /usr/local/cm3
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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