What happened to pup?

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sun May 22 16:29:51 UTC 2005


søn, 22.05.2005 kl. 18.05 skrev Nicolas Mailhot:
> Kyrre Ness Sjobak a écrit :
> 
> > Lets say Adobe wanted to make a really, really simple-to-use installer
> > for their reader
> ...
> 
> ROFL
> 
> What you've described is the windows way and it's nothing but simple. In 
> fact it's so convoluted no one will ever read all the screens you've 
> described (it's nothing but a click ok pipeline - if you really think 
> users process them just add one with the proceed button moved and we'll 
> have massive user consternation)
> 
So what? The user installs what the user needs withot crying "help" on
every forum. The user is happy. Period.

Yes, it is similar to a windows installer, at least on the scene. So
what? It uses the package management system, present the user with some
understandable options, and generally gets the job done.

Btw. the reason i picked adobe was that it was used as an example on the
test list a while ago. Doesn't remember what that was about.

> The really, really simple-to-use installer is a web page that uses your 
> browser id to suggest the right repo file to dump into /etc/yum.repos.d 
> with a short example like :
> 
> su
> wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe.repo url
> yum install acrobat-reader
> exit
> 

Something like that is presented at the bottom of the mail, but then in
the form as a "userfriendly web synaptic".

> (you can add a .repo gui handler if you like but it'll need to be as 
> simple as these four lines)

One of the main points was that i should be able to download an install
file once, and run on whatever distro suits me best.

Kyrre




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