Improved platform release, more reliable installer!
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:42 pm
Hi, I'm happy to announce our second instalment of the application installer.
We have just made a new release available for update (automatic update by default, it may take a couple of hours to be picked up).
This release, our second and final instalment for the application installer, has the following features and bugfixes:
Thanks to all, and in particular in the IRC channel for contributing, for reporting bugs, for helping fix them, for making your HDA available for remote debugging in some cases, for testing, more testing, and yet more testing
Last but not least, many thanks to our team of Application Contributors for providing and/or packaging applications for the whole community!
We have had nearly 1000 application installs so far and the feedback is great!
Be sure to do a post here in the forums or file a bug report (preferably) if you find any issues.
We have tried hard to make the improvements as invisible as possible from the existing installer. (You know you have this new installer if rpm -qa | egrep 'hdactl|hda-platform' tells you that you have hdactl-2.30-3 and hda-platform-2.7-3).
For the team,
cpg
We have just made a new release available for update (automatic update by default, it may take a couple of hours to be picked up).
This release, our second and final instalment for the application installer, has the following features and bugfixes:
- More reliable installs. Some applications experienced problems with installation, some times. This new release should be smoother installation for all apps.
- Applications now display a message indicating what step in the installation process it's at. We'd like to also update in the % downloaded, but that will come later. Due to the way that Ruby on Rails works, we have changed the way applications update the install process (before, it was inside a transaction, which caused the updates not be visible to anything outside, including the browser).
- The installer prevents multiple installations at the same time, for better stability and consistency in installs.
- VPN for 64 is handled properly by default now
- A bunch of smaller bugs have been fixed
Thanks to all, and in particular in the IRC channel for contributing, for reporting bugs, for helping fix them, for making your HDA available for remote debugging in some cases, for testing, more testing, and yet more testing
Last but not least, many thanks to our team of Application Contributors for providing and/or packaging applications for the whole community!
We have had nearly 1000 application installs so far and the feedback is great!
Be sure to do a post here in the forums or file a bug report (preferably) if you find any issues.
We have tried hard to make the improvements as invisible as possible from the existing installer. (You know you have this new installer if rpm -qa | egrep 'hdactl|hda-platform' tells you that you have hdactl-2.30-3 and hda-platform-2.7-3).
For the team,
cpg