> [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. d _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
