Re: RFC: improving the shar installer (was: 2.11.56 problems)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Valentin Villenave
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to ask for comments about this suggestion from Bryan, to
> which I can add a few other suggestions myself.
>
> 1 - is it possible (and wise) to have an installer script that is run
> as standard user, that offers to install as root and *only then* asks
> for a password?
>
> 2 - is it possible (and wise) to make the sh installer just a bit more
> user-friendly like in the attached mockup? I mean, is it possible
> without requiring additional ncurses dependencies or whatever?

Nothing is impossible, but spending a lot of energy on the install
script has a low payoff.

I suggest printing a message with an easily cut & pastable sudo command

> 3 - is it possible to localize the installer like we did with (almost)
> everything else in the program?

The script is in gub/sources/sharhead.sh.

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