Hi Austen, Julie and James- First, great job on HackyInstaller! Your software is going to make the lives of many people easier, especially here at U. Maryland.
Since its release, I have been doing some user testing of HackyInstaller using the command-line interface on a Solaris box. I came across a few issues that I hope to get your advice/help on. First, let me provide some background info about the environment I'm operating in: OS: Sun Solaris 5.8 (Unix) Java version: 1.4.2_05-b04 Home dir: /a/asteria.cs.umd.edu/junkfood/m/mpauldin Hackystat host: http://care.cs.umd.edu:8080 (slash hackystat, to access Hackystat page directly) Hackystat key: SynTLUgpruj2 Now for the issues: First, when I used the command to set the host and key, I made the mistake of appending the slash hackystat to the host. E.g. java -jar hackyInstaller.jar -SetHostAndKey http://care.cs.umd.edu:8080/hackystat/ SynTLUgpruj2 This caused HackyInstaller to fail, outputting "Failure" to the console, but without diagnostic information. I had no idea why the software failed, so I just tried several hosts until I realized the slash hackystat needed to be removed. Can you please add diagnostic information for all failures, as specified in the RFC on 05-May-2005? Ok, second issue: I tried to use HackyInstaller to set a property for Eclipse (the directory in which it is installed). However, as described in the RFC, I used "-SetProperty Eclipse /a/asteria.cs.umd.edu/junkfood/m/mpauldin". It took me some time (and parsing the hackyinstaller.xml file) to realize that the property name is ECLIPSE_HOME. Is it possible for HackyInstaller to output the available properties if the user does not specify a valid one? Issue 3 (the one I'm currently stuck on): I am trying to install the Eclipse sensor for Hackystat using the HackyInstaller command line interface. When I execute the command to do so, I receive error messages that I don't understand. Perhaps you could shed light on them. The transcript of actions/messages appears below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> java -jar hackyInstaller.jar -InstallOrUpdateSensor Eclipse The property cannot be null. Rhino classes (js.jar) not found - Javascript disabled There was an error collecting Sensor information. Please contact the administrator. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> Again, HackyInstaller team: you have done a great job on the software (I particularly like the GUI). What I have listed above are minor kinks, which should be relatively easy to resolve. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Mike
