The new interactive installer is interesting. However, it requires more care from user and creator, more places to make checks.
Alternative could be traditional command-line tool: - run first time without parameters, shows help - run with destination folder parameter, does install Oleg On Sep 28, 2007, at 20:24, "Eric Iverson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: re: chmod required. I have made a change and wonder if you could try this again. That is, remove everthing and start over and do the download again. This time you may not require the chmod or you may simply run into other problems (downloading a file that is executable). Does the shell script installer really feel so much more ancient than the previous tar/sudo/etc steps? What would you recommend instead? I know there are options on the Mac, but I don't think there are easy options on Linux and at least for now I want to keep them the same. J is a program developers tool, not and end user app. If someone provided a complete and easy installer customized for the Mac that was dead easy for us to use I might take a look. I know that Java distributes as a bin shell script for Linux and Mac. They also support other formats such as rpm and something Mac specific but I don't think we can get into packaging options. I kind of like the openness of the shell script. The default location is ~/jsoftware/j602 not ~/j602 but I guess you would consider that to be even more obtrusive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joey K Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beta forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [Jbeta] test At 18:19 -0400 2007/09/28, Eric Iverson wrote: J602 betas are available. First comment about install in OS 10.4.10 -- Strange/weird - (compared to any other application I've seen) chmod +x was indeed required. Or alternatively, "sourced" as - iMg5:~/Desktop jkt$ . ./j602abeta_mac_powerpc.bin.sh Strange to be in a /bin/sh dialog - feels so "last century..." Nice that I can direct to install someplace less intrusive than ~/j602 (thanks for that) Interesting changes in profile.ijs (I haven't searched for more information about multi-user installations - but that sounds promising. More later I'm sure... - joey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
