On Jun 26, 2010, at 2:24 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
On 06/26/10 09:44 AM, Alex Ghitza wrote:
I think the point William is making is that if the main message to
the
user:
============================
sage: An error occurred while installing pynac-0.2.0.p3
Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
explaining the problem and send the relevant part of
of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha0/install.log. Describe
your
computer, operating system, etc.
==========================
is followed by 2 pages of technical details that might just look
bewildering, it's quite likely that the user will not think to scroll
back and see if there was anything s/he is meant to be doing next,
and
will miss the fact that we want them to let us know what happened.
If the main instructions appear on the last screen, they're much more
likely to be seen.
+1
So perhaps it should look like
[...]
Still way to verbose--more helpful to see the actual error. Perhaps:
SunOS hawk 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc
OpenSolaris Development snv_134 X86
sage: An error occurred while installing pynac-0.2.0.p3
Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
explaining the problem and send the relevant part of
of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha0/install.log.
The install log should contain the system information.
- Robert
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