1.) "press 1" is little misleading as pressing one does nothing. Perhaps "enter 1", or "type 1 and press enter". picky I know.
2.) select target path defaults to right where you started, bad. I hit 1 and thank god was warned about what I was about to do.
Better: only accept an empty directory, make up a default if you must, eg: /bin/netrexx/
3. )Now I'm looking at:
Select the packs you want to install:
[<required>] Config (The NetRexx system configuration file)
[<required>] Scripts (NetRexx command line scripts)
[x] Documentation (NetRexx User Guide and Language Reference)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
I have no clue what to do here.
Select the packs you want to install:
[<required>] Config (The NetRexx system configuration file)
[<required>] Scripts (NetRexx command line scripts)
[x] Documentation (NetRexx User Guide and Language Reference)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
[x] Examples (NetRexx sample code)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
[<required>] Translator (The NetRexx compiler)
[<required>] Runtime (The NetRexx runtime library)
[x] Tools (NetRexx support tools)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1
...pack selection done.
press 1 to continue, 2 to quit, 3 to redisplay
3
Select the packs you want to install:
[<required>] Config (The NetRexx system configuration file)
[<required>] Scripts (NetRexx command line scripts)
[x] Documentation (NetRexx User Guide and Language Reference)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1
[x] Examples (NetRexx sample code)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1
[<required>] Translator (The NetRexx compiler)
[<required>] Runtime (The NetRexx runtime library)
[x] Tools (NetRexx support tools)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1
...pack selection done.
press 1 to continue, 2 to quit, 3 to redisplay
very confusing. Unlike anything I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of dumb terminal cli installations.
Not even sure what I did, I meant to just accept it all. Maybe a single yes/no prompt for each individual "pack" (what's a pack) and info msg for <required> would be less
confusing.
what is a "pack"?
[ Starting to unpack ]
[ Processing package: Config (1/7) ]
[ Processing package: Scripts (2/7) ]
[ Processing package: Documentation (3/7) ]
[ Processing package: Examples (4/7) ]
[ Processing package: Translator (5/7) ]
[ Processing package: Runtime (6/7) ]
[ Processing package: Tools (7/7) ]
[ Unpacking finished ]
Install was successful
application installed on /root/netrexx
[ Console installation done ]
Cool. Looks like I did it. But did the install tweak my PATH and CLASSPATH or at least tell me what it will need to be? Huh?
Ooops, no, not even close. I guess it's back to the README.
Nice would be to guide the newbe over the whole path/classpath hurdle as it will stymie any less than veteran java wannabe, like me.
OpenJDK 1.7
Respectfully and thankfully,
Ken K
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