Subject: | Strawberry 5.12.0-RC1 - feedback |
Hi,
some comments to the latest 5.12.0-RC1
1/ Warning "Strawberry cannot be installed in a directory with spaces" has some 3 strange charactes before and 5 strange characters after (strange = not present in my system font = displaying just empty squares).
2/ IMHO it is also necessary to test that the directory name contains only us-ascii characters
3/ Recapitulation screen (after choosing directory) - "ready to install" - seems to be kind of empty/useless - it might be a good idea to put there at least some info (of course it has no priority).
4/ The final installer screen should say:
- Go to start menu > "Strawberry Perl"
- Before you start using Strawberry Perl read Release Notes and README
5/ Please consider including gcctoolchain related license info that I have packed into separate ZIP files
http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/32_gcctoolchain/mingw64-w32-20100123-kmx-v2-lic.zip
http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_gcctoolchain/mingw64-w64-20100123-kmx-v2-lic.zip
6/ We should perhaps update the file licenses/Licenses.rtf (some parts are better covered by licenses/<comonentname>/*)
7/ Consider reorganising startup menu similarly as I have proposed for Strawberry-PRO: separate folders "Tools" + "Related websites"; in root just "Perl (command line)" + "Strawberry Perl 5.12.0 Release notes" + "Strawberry Perl README" (by this I mean link to already existing README.TXT)
I have a feeling that Strawberry 5.12.x will be a success :)
--
kmx
some comments to the latest 5.12.0-RC1
1/ Warning "Strawberry cannot be installed in a directory with spaces" has some 3 strange charactes before and 5 strange characters after (strange = not present in my system font = displaying just empty squares).
2/ IMHO it is also necessary to test that the directory name contains only us-ascii characters
3/ Recapitulation screen (after choosing directory) - "ready to install" - seems to be kind of empty/useless - it might be a good idea to put there at least some info (of course it has no priority).
4/ The final installer screen should say:
- Go to start menu > "Strawberry Perl"
- Before you start using Strawberry Perl read Release Notes and README
5/ Please consider including gcctoolchain related license info that I have packed into separate ZIP files
http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/32_gcctoolchain/mingw64-w32-20100123-kmx-v2-lic.zip
http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_gcctoolchain/mingw64-w64-20100123-kmx-v2-lic.zip
6/ We should perhaps update the file licenses/Licenses.rtf (some parts are better covered by licenses/<comonentname>/*)
7/ Consider reorganising startup menu similarly as I have proposed for Strawberry-PRO: separate folders "Tools" + "Related websites"; in root just "Perl (command line)" + "Strawberry Perl 5.12.0 Release notes" + "Strawberry Perl README" (by this I mean link to already existing README.TXT)
I have a feeling that Strawberry 5.12.x will be a success :)
--
kmx