Hello, On Thursday 19 March 2009 18:03, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:35:01PM +0100, Thorkil Naur wrote: > ... > > 1. An important property of such installers is that you are told, right from > > the start, that all the information you are presented with during the > > installation process can be accessed at any time, after completion of the > > installation, and you are told how. In case of GHC, something like a > > reference to a suitable spot, given as part of the output from ghc --help. I > > don't see any trace of such a facility on the introduction screen. (I know > > that other installers don't do this either, which is part of the reason why I > > try to avoid them.) > > I didn't follow that; can you say exactly what text you want where, > please?
The point of this item is to avoid the uneasiness that I often feel when running though such a sequence of screens, that some piece of information that I am given is not available anywhere else and that it is forever gone, once the screen that contains it has been replaced by the next in the sequence. Hence also my interest in being able to copy and paste the contents of these screens. A suggested way to reduce this uneasiness would be: 1a. Add this text to the Introduction screen: "The complete text of the installation session will be available after installation at /usr/share/doc/ghc/INSTALL_SESSION_MACOSX.txt [say]. Invoking the command 'ghc --help' in a Terminal window will mention the location of this file." So, all I have to remember now is 'ghc --help'. 1b. And, of course, now we have to produce this file INSTALL_SESSION_MACOSX.txt, somehow, and include it in the installation. I am not sure what this file should be, but let me say first that I am not thinking of an installation log or something like that, I am thinking of something that can be produced statically, as part of producing the installation package. Ideally, if the package is produced by some tool, it would be possible to extract the contents of various screens in text form and use that. Or perhaps there is some script for generating the installation package that could be used directly or with a few edits. In any case, the file should contain, in text form, whatever text is presented to the user during installation. So a list of header, contents, in the order used during installation. 1c. And 'ghc --help' should be extended to mention the INSTALL_SESSION_MACOSX.txt file. Not necessarily a trivial change, I admit, but I would consider it very useful. > ... Best regards Thorkil _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
