[1111] in athena10
Re: Super-Simple Installer (loller)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Feb 10 21:46:21 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:45:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: David Sheets <dsheets@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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So, this is a question we've gotten a lot. The intention is that you
should think about what you're answering rather than just hitting enter,
but a recommendation is there in case you're totally confused. But the
behavior seems to _cause_ people to get confused...
I'm kind of surprised that it hangs rather than asking you the question
again.
Anyway the installer needs restructuring to offer a menu
rather than a dichotomy of questions. We'll probably do that soon.
Thanks for the report,
--
Geoffrey Thomas
for the Debathena team
debathena@mit.edu
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, David Sheets wrote:
> 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
>
