[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes. My thoughts center around the idea of turning this software loose on > people who might need > some additional hand holding and how maybe that's not so great an idea when > beta testing. >
That's exactly what I am trying to address - and hopefully make less "tail-chasing" work for Fritz or any other developers. It seemed to me that Travis's issue was reminiscent of "module-missing" issues of the past, which is why I rehashed this discussion. I'm certainly not looking to make more work for anyone (esp Fritz). > I believe the requirements should state that in the 'NIX environment that ALL > Perl modules are > required and in the WIN32 environment that all modules except SYSLOG are > required in a > README 1ST file. Then when someone is having a problem the first thing that > can be asked is if > all requirements were met contained in that document. Wouldn't that clear up > a lot of problems? > I agree in theory, but not in practice. :-) The reason I wrote the script that I handed off to Travis was specifically for these kinds of issues where the installer/admin is unfamiliar with ASSP, Perl, Perl modules, etc. The Win32 admin probably being more-likely to be unfamiliar with Perl, etc. Over the years of learning how to use ASSP myself and participating in this list, module mis-use is a repetitive issue that is not always easy to identify. I know that people want choices (so do I!), and want as little restrictions as possible (again, so do I!). But, in my research I have found no reason (and no one has been able to present me with a valid one) as to why everyone can't be required to install all modules. To me it seems like an easy way to eliminate a whole spectrum of supportability issues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
