On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:04:10PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 1. Freenet installer asks where the Freenet software should be > >> installed > >> 2. Freenet installer asks separately where shared system files should > >> be installed > >> 3. If Java not detected, the Freenet installer uses that second path to > >> install Java using Sun's online installer? > > > > I think it is always good practice to keep the number of questions a > > user must answer to the absolute minimum. If necessary allow a user to > > opt out of something by unchecking a check box, but don't force them to > > answer a question (as the current installer does with those ugly dialogs > > which should really be checkboxes). > > I couldn't agree more. They are awful. > NSIS makes developing installers with checkboxes / radioboxes more effort > than is strictly tolerable. WISE is only slightly more tolerable, but > non-free. MSI I haven't tried yet but I would expect it to be both > tolerable and free (the MSI sdk is certainly free). But until someone > donates me a copy of WISE, or I suddenly get a bit of freetime, it's not > going to change. > > > With this in mind, 1 is somewhat redundant, why would they download the > > installer if they didn't want to install Freenet. 3 is probably bad, > > there is a standard place to put Java, we shouldn't default to putting > > it somewhere else. > > Did you misread my 'where' as 'whether' ? > The more I think about it the more it makes sense to silently install Java > to wherever the user asks to put Freenet. That is, if we're going to > silently install Java anywhere. I wasn't aware there was a 'standard > place' to put Java. Last time I tried installing Java (the SDK as it > happens), the installer asked me where I wanted to put it. As it turned > out it got it wrong, but that's my choice, not the installer's choice. It > suggested J:\Program Files, but I use that for OS-tied applications. It > should have been F:\Devel, but of course the installer had no way of > knowing this without asking me first.
Have an Advanced... box at some point or something. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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