Sharley wrote:Where can we find or see the "current alpha"?
http://twitter.com/apachefriends#status_1639711670
Sharley wrote:Where can we find or see the "current alpha"?
if you want to discuss this further then please feel free to e-mail me ... I have posted here rather than in the cramping small text box on the beta page
I love the new Control Panel with what seems to be all the required buttons to make it now a true control panel
(have you got rid of that monstrosity of an installer version or should it be named the installer confusion version)
The word relocate is not correct here as it is not actually relocating xampp but is actually locating the xampp path locations.
Perhaps just locate would be a better word to use than relocate as you have not located anything (the paths in this case) in the first place to actually relocate anything.
Relocate would be correct if you had already located xampp but then you move the xampp folder to another location - this would then need the paths relocating.
I was immediately confronted with the first line:
I must relocate XAMPP
Should I proceed? (y=yes/n=no): y
I answered y to test and it made no changes from the location of the "current path" selected during extraction and installation.
But if you answer n at this point then the script gives this error message:
ERROR: You must relocate XAMPP, before you can use it.
Press any key to continue . . .
When you press any key to continue it closes the script and the console window instead of returning to the question so you can then correctly select y to continue without the resulting hassle of starting over with the installation.
Notes explaining the choices would be a big help in this section.
Remember that most will be new users and most may well be new computer uses.
I will now try out the rest of this alpha version.
A most welcome XCP inclusion but I feel that once again you may have to give some clues for users that may want to use it, as the console window prompt does not appear the same in the Shell as it does in the Command Prompt.Wiedmann wrote:(BTW: have you tried the "Shell"?)
I think a question would be preferred if you need this step at all when first run during installation as really it would be difficult move the xampp folder location during the installation process, and why would you want to anyway.Wiedmann wrote:If this step is not necessary, we can change this to a question "Want you...". If you don't install XAMPP in "X:\xampp" (or if you move XAMPP after installation/setup), this message looks like:
| Current directory does not match configured directory.
| I must relocate XAMPP.
IMHO that would be less confusing and less of a issue than the n alternative which breaks the flow of the installation without being warned.Wiedmann wrote:That's just if someone extract XAMPP, but don't want configure it at the moment. And you must do the next step, or XAMPP can't work (that's the reason for the error message after answering with "no", and the user is warned, that it must do this, even if it exit the script now).
The "Press any key to continue . . ." is just from the OS, so people have a change to read the error message if the script ends with an error or an abnormal termination of PHP (it's just a "pause" command in the batchfile.
Well, instead of "n" we can also use "x=exit". So it's clear the script will stop if the answer is not "y".
I am 100% with you on this and must surely be the major source of confusion for new users as is often reflected in the posts on these forums when members are trying to follow the web pages and the readme files.Wiedmann wrote:But we should put this explanations into the readme (and the webpage). (in fact, I'm not happy with the current readme...)
How about including the Alpha testing info in the Beta pages of the web site perhaps for ease of locating everything to do with development in the one location?Wiedmann wrote:And we need people which are testing this alpha. A lot of things have changed (apart from the setup script).
A most welcome XCP inclusion but I feel that once again you may have to give some clues for users that may want to use it, as the console window prompt does not appear the same in the Shell as it does in the Command Prompt.
BTW is there a switch/command when you call the Shell in the source of the XCP to have the console window open to a certain width and height which may help with the small "standard shell window size of 25 lines"? - I have configured mine to suit my needs for a larger width and length window in the properties configuration, which I believe stores those window size properties in the registry.
How about including the Alpha testing info in the Beta pages of the web site perhaps for ease of locating everything to do with development in the one location?
BTW is there a list of these "things that have changed", as in a change log perhaps to help with locating and testing them much quicker?
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