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Unwelcome installer action, cannot be prevented #35

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
*** What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Run installer
2. Select 'RFortran source' only
3. Accept all subsequent steps

*** What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect selecting 'installation' of SRC only should only install the SRC.
Instead, it also

1) adds a variable RFORTRAN_PATH to the Windows environment variables.
2) adds a bunch of menus to my window menu

This is unwelcome: I just wanted to see the source code - not modify my
system (I can revert the change - but many other may not know what that
means). Moreover, I was given no choice as to accept either modification.

*** What version of RFortran are you using?

The installer 'RFortran-v1.0.0(Beta 5).exe'

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mark.th...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2009 at 11:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
D,

What you report as a bug is actually a design feature!

1) RFORTRAN_PATH stores the install path to RFortran - it is required by the 
source
code for RFortran to actually work! RFortran reads the environment variable to 
find
the location of the RFortran.settings file. Using the environment variable for 
this
tasks saves the user having to enter it themselves somewhere. 

For more information see: 
http://code.google.com/p/rfortran/wiki/UsingRFortran#RFortran_Settings

As including the environmental variable is essential for RFortran to work, it 
is not
considered an 'optional extra' for the installer. 

2) The start menu items are merely links to the standard and tutorial
solutions/workspaces for RFortran. The aim of having the start menu items was 
to make
it easier for users to find appropriate tutorial workspaces/solutions. 
I can see your point that some users may not want this. Hence in the next minor
release of RFortran (v1.1, most likely), an option will added to ask whether 
the user
wishes start menu items to be added. 

FYI - Both the RFORTRAN_PATH environment variable and Start Menu Items are 
removed by
the RFortran uninstaller.

Original comment by mark.th...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2009 at 11:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Minor updates to labels. Plus I have changed this to an enhancement, since this 
is
not actually a bug from the developers perspective.

Original comment by mark.th...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2009 at 11:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
thanks for the quick response time from the RFortran support  :-)

I can understand you need the enviro variable for RFortran to work, but perhaps 
there
should be a brief explanation that this is about to happen and why is it needed
(giving an option to cancel, but see below).

The name of the option ('RFortran source') to me indicates just an extraction 
of the
src, nothing more. In any case since I selected to not register anything else, 
having
the path variable set is insufficient for anything to work anyway.

In my case I actually really just wanted to look at the code - not even run it. 
I
could not access the source code in any other way, and the name of the option 
to me
looked like just what I wanted to do.

I do think an option to just get/view the SRC code is warranted. Once I 
(meaning some
users) am happy to take next step rerunning the installer for a full 
configuration is
quite simple.

So: est ist ein coleopter!

Original comment by dmitri.k...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2009 at 12:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by mark.th...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 5:22