Re: Re: Xaraya :: Documents :: Contact Information

Jason Judge wrote in news:bhspq9$f3g$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]:

> Hehe. But it's *obvious*.

It bloody well isnt! ;-) That's two people now who can *read* but simply 
don't find the instructions needed in what they are reading carefully.

It's far from 'obvious' that from several directories provided in the 
zip/tarball only one, named 'html', which doesn't actually contain any 
HTML, is the one you need to install.

> If you've done it before ;-)

After asking on the forum first - which is what I did...!

I added a comment to #1079 ... where amongst noting other things (like 
the non-explanatory nature of the name of the 'html' directory) I 
volunteer to write up a better version of INSTALL.txt, provided someone 
else will actually install that in the downloadable .906 tarball/zip. 
(I.e., NOT just in BK - but in what people download *now*.)

Two people complained - how many are scared away? Xaraya doesn't need to 
be really *easy* at this point (it isn't) but it doesn't help to raise 
an initial hurdle like that. Unless you want to beta-test an 
installation instruction that you by now know doesn't exactly work as 
given ;-)

[Sorry if I sound a bit harsh - I just went through installing and 
immediately uninstalling a 'little utility' that messed up my Win2K and 
would not even uninstall until after a reboot - after which my firewall 
didn't initialize properly. 2 hours wasted, for nothing. I'm not too 
happy right now.]


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