Good point Jay
2011/2/19 Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org>: > 5 hours ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: >> 2011/2/18 Jos Koot <jos.k...@telefonica.net>: >> > For a simple windows 7 user as I it is rather difficult to use >> > command line instructions. I plead for an easy to use gui for >> > making contributions. >> >> I think this is orthogonal to the project, but I do mention how >> important it is to have an easy way of getting packages >> post-installation. I was imagining that this would be a separate GUI >> tool that was auto-launched on Windows installation and suggested on >> "first launch" of DrRacket. > > General reminder: when you're at the "first launch" step, you're > already beyond the point of adding installation wide content. You're > some student in some class that is annoyed at their sysadmins not > installing something, and annoyed at the constant popups since they're > working on public machines that are getting wiped on every logout. Or > you're a sysadmin that gets annoyed at the fact that the need to > interact with the installer. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
