From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: lost.goblin@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.95.4 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:09:42 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xhB2ovpFCBv80x2qaMqD8orumNg Message-ID: Subject: Installing 9front From: Uriel To: 9front@googlegroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 So I told cinap that if he got Go working on 9front I would install 9front. And of course, in like 15min he had Go up and running. So I had to install 9front. Well, the installer sucks, it is much better than the old installer, but still SUCKS. 1) Stupid shit like this: http://harmful.cat-v.org/_9front/config-config.png config: config: config: config: config: config:?!? Really? WTF? 2) Too many questions, and worse, some of them have no defaults when there is an obvious default, this is still much improved from the old installer, and just pressing enter works *almost* all the time, there is no reason to not finish this up. (Also, a 'quick install' option might be a good idea, to spare you from pressing enter a hundred times). 3) Not only are the disk space requirements are somewhat high, but you get no warning if your disk is too small, you go all the way into copydist, which barfs on disk full errors, but 'completes' anyway and pretends it is done and that you can go on with the next install step. At the very least we should warn if the disk is too small, and probably we should fail before going into copydist. 4) Yes, there is disk size advice in the Wiki Install page, but why should I look at the wiki? Anyway the install page is HUGE and is full of useless screendumps from the installer. Most of the useful bits of info from that page should just be incorporated into the installer itself (which anyway already prints too much useless shit, like endless streams of "config:"). All that said, I can't believe I'm in a Plan 9 system and I can do hg inc and hg log and get meaningful information about changes!!!! I feel like I must be dreaming. Awesome. Uriel