[Yanel-dev] Re: [Dev] Minutes on installing the Yanel sourcecode
on Windows XP
Simone Gerber
simone.gerber at wyona.com
Thu Feb 11 13:54:27 CET 2010
Guillaume Déflache wrote:
> Simone Gerber schrieb:
>> The installation of the Yanel source code version showed some problems:
>>
>> 1. Problems with unzipping the zip-folder. This could be due to
>> system settings and can be considered as an enhancement.
>
> What happened exactly?
The zip-file got downloaded into the download folder and would not
unzip automatically although somehow all content of the zip folder
got displayed.
>
>> 2. Open Readme ---> text editor does not open the file in a readable
>> way, Wordpad is okay. It would be nice if text editor worked as
>> well, although this issue might also have to do with system setting
>> and can be considered an enhancement.
>
> Probably a svn:eol-style issue, cf.
> http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6987#c0
>
>
>> 3. JDK requirements and setting of JAVA HOME could be documented
>> more clearly. Maybe we should write an Install document with more
>
> Any suggested alternate phrasing? IIRC all info is here.
>
>
>> detailed information for people who like to have more instructions
>> and not to bother those who don't ---> for those the Readme should
>> be sufficient and contain only essential information. To improve
>
> +1, we should split customizations from basic installation instructions,
> the former should be pointers to other docs.
I could make a collection of readme files for comparison. Then
someone with more technical knowledge could actually write the Yanel
instructions, because I think installation instructions are mostly
for technicians and they will understand it better if it is written
by one of their kind.
Simone
>
>
>> installation guidelines would be nice re community support/expansion
>> but it is not crucial.
>
> Sun JDK 6+ installers may well set JAVA_HOME at installation time, in
> this case the related instructions could be moved to the HTML
> documentation.
>
>
>> 4. javadoc is not working. This is a bug that should be fixed. I
>> will open a Bugzilla entry.
>
> http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7410 indeed.
> Thanks!
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