Yes, we do see Macromedia people here, and they are invariably very helpful. Strangely not about installation issues though.
You might recall I posted about 50 messages here a few months ago trying to install CFMX on my dev server, and I got lots of suggestions, but none from Macromedia. This is a wonderful community of helpful people. It's a major asset to the ColdFusion development community. My problem turned out that CFMX wouldn't install the jrun properly. Chris Kief helped me for several hours but the problem eluded him. Dave Watts most generously spent about seven hours working on my machine to no avail. I wouldn't describe either Chris or Dave as a novices. I had to reformat that hard drive again recently and installed windows, all the updates, then tried to install CFMX. It wouldn't install. It didn't give any messages. Just went through the wizard and then gave a blank page instead of the administrator login page. The only way I could get it to install was to reformat again, start again from the beginning, and install CFMX before I did any updates or anything else. It's my opinion that a half-decent install routine should either install under most of the circumstances it's likely to meet (and I'd suggest meeting a WinXPPRo system with one or two updates on it would qualify) or give reasons why it failed - a hint or two as to what went wrong. I believe a half-decent server system ought to install updaters on a properly configured Win2k server with all the updates added, or give reasons why it doesn't, so the Sysadmin can figure out what went wrong. Specially as in my case a Sysadmin for whom ColdFusion isn't his first language. If it doesn't do all these things, there should be technical notes somewhere moderately easy to find on the Macromedia site that explain the problems and what to do about it. Can anyone tell me where to find a discussion on the MM site about how to debug a updater installation that doesn't happen properly? (no error message to refer to because none is given). Can anyone point me to a MM tech note that explains how to install a JRUN that isn't installed properly on a brand new drive? Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Brunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 2 June 2003 2:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ?ISO-8859-1?Q?Release_date_for_coldfusion_mx_II/changes/fixes??Release_date_ for_coldfusion_mx_II/changes/fixes It's interesting; we have installed many copies of CF50 and CFMX and had virtually no problems. I do think Macromedia gives us good attention and facility, for instance I am on 2 Websphere lists and I see no great evidence of IBM personnel jumping in to constantly help users, we always see Sean Corfield and often others from Macromedia here (Mike Chambers et al). And of course thanks to Michael and Judith Dinowitz this and other great lists. Kind Regards - Mike Brunt Webapper Services LLC Web Site http://www.webapper.com Blog http://www.webapper.net Webapper <Web Application Specialists> -----Original Message----- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ?ISO-8859-1?Q?Release_date_for_coldfusion_mx_II/changes/fixes??Release_date_ for_coldfusion_mx_II/changes/fixes I don't know the release date, but I would suggest you not hold your breath on fixes for configuration issues. This myriad of problems has never seemed to be very high on MM's radar screen. They remain the only major software publisher that refuses to adequately develop the install scripts which will make the required configuration settings as part of the setup. It remains a PITA to install their software (especially server software) and still have to research all over the place and then directly edit the registry, and a myriad of config files in order to get a useable installation. All this and their withdrawal from free support for installation issues is going to bite them, I believe. ====================================== Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For CF hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 ====================================== If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:50 AM Subject: ?ISO-8859-1?Q?Release_date_for_coldfusion_mx_II/changes/fixes??Release_date_ for_ coldfusion_mx_II/changes/fixes | Hello! | | Has there already been set a deadline when the new version of ColdFusion | will be relased? 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