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Super-Simple Installer (loller)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Sheets)
Tue Feb 10 21:41:22 2009
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From: David Sheets <dsheets@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
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Hi,
Using the super-simple installer, I noticed that the instructions:
Answer y or n to the following prompts.
The recommended choice is capitalized.
are easy to miss or misinterpret. The problem comes from the default
selection convention in many install scripts.
I expected:
Hitting <enter> would choose the default choice (it just spins --
preferable to dying)
It looks like you have made the answer case insensitive, though, which
is good. After the spinning prompt, I got worried that maybe my "Y"
had not been registered (clearly I didn't realize the instructions
were so important!) so I opened the script and found "tr A-Z a-z".
Yay!
Anyway, it's not a huge deal: just a little weirdness you might want
to look into.
Best,
sheets
