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Re: Super-Simple Installer (loller)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Sheets)
Tue Feb 10 21:50:16 2009
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From: David Sheets <dsheets@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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Sorry, I apologize for my loose words. The prompt loop "spins" around
and asks me again. Initially, I hit <enter> several times. :-P
sheets
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
