[kepler-dev] [Bug 4899] Installer Bugs

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4899

Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|P2                          |P1
             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
   Target Milestone|Unspecified                 |2.0.0

--- Comment #1 from Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> 2010-03-23 10:12:29 PDT ---
1) "Please read the following information" screen
        "Kepler is based on Ptolemy II version 7.0.2"
       change to
        "Kepler is based on Ptolemy II 8.0"

       Should the links to http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu be live?

2) Should there be an "Accept License" screen?
The licensing issue is complex, a complete 

3) Spaces in installation directory cause problems:
     Using /Applications/Kepler 2.0.0 1 results in

  Usage: hdiutil attach [options] <image>
  hdiutil attach -help
   hdiutil: attach: extra image argument "2.0.0" -"/Applications/Kepler"
    already specified
   The file /Volumes/R-2.9.0/R.mpkg does not exist

   Then, starting Kepler.app fails, the Console says:

3/23/10 9:27:37 AM [0x0-0x3be3be].Kepler[56630]      [null] Exception in thread
"main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 2/0/0 

4) If you want the installer to optionally start Kepler, see
   ptII8.0.beta/adm/gen-8.0/ptII8_0_beta_setup_windows.xml
   in the rel_8_0_beta_2 branch.  The key bits are that I set some conditions
   and then use a ProcessPanel, which is configured with  ProcessPanel.Spec.xml 

5) ptolemy/kernel/attributes/VersionAttribute.java is missing

6) The version of Ptolemy that is shipped appears to be from the devel tree, 
not the
    beta branch.  For example, ptolemy/apps should not exist, yet it does.

7) On both vista and 7, kepler couldn't be installed in Program Files folder. I
had to choose the home directory as the installation location. Morpho installer
had this same issue and was fixed. Here is the bug:
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4677 

8) Kepler icons on both Desktop and Program Menu just show a blank page. This
happened on all windows. But I didn't test on mac and linux. 

9) IE automatically changes the win jar file to a zip file during the
downloading. So I couldn't just do a double-click the zip file to launch the
installer on windows. Is it possible to create an exe installer?

10) Is there any special reason why we need two separate files for 32-bit and
64-bit machines on windows? I know Morpho can just have one jar file (or exe
file) for the both machines. 

11) The Windows installer does not direct you to download Java 1.5 if you don't
already have it. I started out with 1.4.2 only, and the installer didn't even
work. Then I purposely downloaded Java 1.6, and it never prompted me to get
Java 1.5. I am not sure if this is intended behavior or not. I have simply
deleted all references to it directing you to download 1.5 and am assuming they
will do this manually if desired.

12) Install in Kepler-2.0 directory instead of 2.0.0

13) Kepler creates dirs in KeplerData/modules/ with -2.0 and without. This
doesn't seem to cause any problems, but core and loader store files in their
sans-2.0 dirs, while the others use the 2.0 dirs. 

14) File => Open File opens into the Kepler application dir. It'd be nice if it
opened into KeplerData/Kepler-2.0-Demos/

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