On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:29:16AM -0700, Haydon Boone wrote:
>    My vote is that the default should be an executable graphical 
> installer/uninstaller, with distro-specific rpms created as 
> needed/justified/requested.
> 
>    As we learned from the Unix RP7/RP8/ROP Alpha products, there will 
> always be a portion of the user base who complains about "the stoopid 
> graphical UI, what a waste of time, give me a command line installer you 
> GUI dorks" but there will also be a significant, mostly-silent, portion of 
> the user base who you don't hear from because the installer "just works", 
> doing what it's supposed to w/out confusion, allowing them to easily get to 
> the point of the exercise - actually using the product.
> 
>    Also, provide an option to allow the installer to be kicked off from the 
> command line with a bunch of name-value pairs to allow total installation & 
> configuration without any user prompts (other than "Install Complete" or 
> "Error:", of course) - enterprise users will thank you.

The server's installer provides this capability, btw.


> 
> At 04:29 AM 7/24/2003, Greg Wright wrote:
> >I think a executable installer is nice to have. Lets also not forget a
> >uninstaller as well (at least a readme with all the file locations).
> >
> >However, it should not be too hard to have packages for some of the
> >more popular systems like RedHat and Debian.
> >
> >--greg
> >
> >
> >From: "Vikram Dendi" <vikram at helixcommunity.org>
> > > What sort of an installer should the Helix Player for Linux support?
> > >
> > > Should it just be a package such as rpm (with maybe post-install scripts
> > > to register filetypes and such), or should we ALSO offer a full-fledged
> > > installer (graphical?) like Ximian's?
> > >
> > > One suggestion was to look at the Server installer here:
> > > https://server.helixcommunity.org/source/browse/server/installer/
> > > What would be the benefits of having such an installer?
> > >
> > > Along the custom installer lines, what about doing it like rp8 does it?
> > > (download bin and run). If NOT being able to tell the rpm database about
> > > it being installed is an issue - we could get the installer/executable
> > > to update the database on first run. This way the user has a choice on
> > > how to upgrade/uninstall in the future. A good graphical installer also
> > > is useful when we port to systems that don't have package management.
> > >
> > > Please share your thoughts. Join the Helix Player project! :-)
> > > -V
> > >
> > > https://player.helixcommunity.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList
> > >
> >
> >
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