[freenet-dev] Installation bugs on a Mac, and some usability issues

[Florent Daignière]

* Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> [2008-04-06 07:57:46]:

> Just installed using the webstart installer.  Set the installation
> path to /Users/ian/Applications/Freenet.  Click "Yes" after the "The
> directory already exists" warning.
> 
> See the bars go by on the "Overall installation progress", it says its
> finished.  Hit next.
> 
> Now surprised to see that actually there seems to be more installation
> that needs doing, since the previous Wizard step kinda implied that
> installation is finished.  I'm wondering if we could make all of this
> console output part of the previous wizard step hidden behind a nice
> progress bar?
> 

Not easily; No way it can be done before -rc2

> Anyway, it works its way down, gets to:
> 
> ...Freenet/bin/install_startup_hook-mac.sh: line 35:
> /Library/StartupItems//Freenet/Freenet.plist: No such file or
> directory
> 
> It actually produces 6 or 7 similar lines of output, and before that
> its complaining about not being able to find Freenet.sh in the same
> directory.
> 

Allright I will fix this one

> I'm wondering why its trying to install a startup item without asking
> my permission (at least I don't remember it asking my permission), and
> how it plans to do it when I haven't entered my administrator password
> (something that normally pops up at the start of an installation if
> its needed).
> 

As we don't ask for it on windows, I don't see any reason why we should ask
for it on macos... I don't think we need administrator rights to make it
auto-startup, isn't /Library/LaunchDaemons/ writable for everyone ?

> Its around this time I get a "Process execution failed" dialog box.  I
> hit "Ok", it does some other stuff, and says "All done, please click
> Next", oh and throws up this dialog box:
> 
> Java.io.IOException : /Users/ian/Applications/Freenet/bin/cleanup.sh: not found
> 

I bet this one is because of the previous errors

> On the installation wizard, I click "No, I want the node to
> automatically find strangers to connect to", hit "Continue", and I get
> a "HTTP Method not allowed" error.  I hit "back" a few times, try it
> again, and it works.  I haven't been able to reproduce the "HTTP
> Method not allowed" bug.
> 

This particular bug has been fixed in trunk; the fix will be deployed
with next build.

> We definitely need to try and get the installer cleaned up before RC2,
> hopefully this feedback will help.

It does help :)
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