Do you think the delay to get the config file is worse on Windows than Mac?
-Alex On 4/22/14 11:12 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Tried out the installer again (a few times) on windows 7 (in a VM) and >all seemed to work reasonably well - well no errors anyway. > >Run on windows XP (in a VM) and got this: > >Version 3.0.0 (windows) >Using Locale:en_AU >Fetched the SDK download mirror URL from the CGI. >AIR version 13.0 >Flash Player version 13.0 >AIR version 13.0 >Flash Player version 13.0 >Unable to load >https://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.12.0/binaries/apache-flex-sdk-installer >-config.xml >Unable to clean up temporary installation directories >Aborting Installation >Unable to load >https://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.12.0/binaries/apache-flex-sdk-installer >-config.xml >Unable to clean up temporary installation directories >Aborting Installation > >1. Why is AIR version/FP version printer twice and why is it trying to >get the config file twice? >3. Is SSL needed? Look like that may be blocked by the windows firewall >(or my setup I'm not sure which) as I get nothing in a browser for that >URL but do get the config file if I just use http rather than https. I >think all of the other URLs are http rather than https. This may be the >cause of some of the errors in google analytics. >4. While you are waiting for the config file to be downloaded (first >next), you can click next button multiple times - this is probably the >cause of 1. There is sometimes a delay of 5-10 seconds or so in getting >the config file and there is no indication that anything is happening. If >https call fails there's a delay of 20 seconds where you can click >multiple ties on the next button and you also end up with multiple error >logs being shown. Other that the extra lines in the log and extra >downloads of the config file I'm not sure if this does anything bad. >5. The new release versions of FP/AIR 13 are missing in the list of >options to select. >6. There about a 30 second delay before the text first shows after >starting the application. Perhaps rather than a busy cursor a message >should be put on the screen - "Getting resources" or the like? >7. While waiting for the text to initially show you can click on the >blank next button and combo boxes. Don't think this does anything bad but >they probably should be disabled. > >None of these would be blockers for a release but IMO they are a small >step backwards in terms of user experience from the current installer. > >Thanks, >Justin
