ON Sat, 12 Dec 2015 "[-hh]"<h...@livecode.org> wrote:
I can now confirm that it installs on Win 7 --- after a very long
time, as you say. A fresh copy of the Indy-version needed here (3 GHz,
Win 7-32Bit). (Times instead of screenshots of the progress bar) 1
minute to start plus 5 minutes to com to a 50% progress bar plus 6
minutes to come to a 100% progress bar plus 1 minutes to come to the
"Finish" display plus 7 minutes past the "Finish" button. The
community-version was 5 minutes faster. Perhaps Wilhelm gave up, being
accustomed to have a 1-2 minutes (in sum) installer. I killed at the
first trial the installer after 5 minutes or so of waiting (and
switched the OS and machine). By the way, I like the automatic feature
"uninstall previous versions" (of the current one to install) of the
installer very much. This part of the installer worked for me always
without problems and very fast. Hermann
Wilhelm S. wrote:
Livecode 8 DP 11 apparently cannot be installed on Windows 7/ 32 .
I tried an installation twice, both times the installation stopped
(was not completed) after clicking the "Finish"-button, even after
the first installation attempt I had deleted the previous DP 11
version from my machine.
Peter B. wrote:
Hi Wilhelm (and Hermann), By the way, I have now tested LiveCode
8.0.0-dp-11 (both Community and Business) on my Windows 7 workstation
at home, and I was able to successfully install the IDE, activate it
and run it. I did have to wait a very long time with a full progress
bar before the final screen with the "Finish" button appeared. So that
the problems that you are encountering can be fixed, please give me some
more information about exactly what settings you are using to install.
A screenshot of the stage which is broken would be helpful to.
Thank you, Hermann and Peter, for your feedback.
Indeed I did not wait a further 7 minutes after the "Finish"-button
appeared at the end of the installation process. There were no such
delays when installing all the previous LC 8 versions.
I waited for "some" time with the Finish-button being shown until an
error dialog popped up like "Livecode Installer not responding". The
cursor kept spinning and couldn't be stopped even when using the Task
Manager. De-installation of the Livecode file via the Windows systems
menu also was not possible because at this point in time there was no
LC8 DP11 file accessible by the Windows system - apparently it had not
been properly installed until this point. I had to remove the partly
installed Livecode 8 DP 11 files manually, downloaded the installer
again, and tried three times anew to install LC 8 - with the same
results as described.
I am doubtful concerning the usefulness of a screenshot. All you can see
is the installation dialog showing the still present finish-button.
Next thing I did today was to install LC 8 DP11 on the Windows 7/64
partition of my Mac Mini. This went without any problems.
Intending to test performance developments between different LC versions
(on the Windows partition of the Mac Mini) - like I reported them
several times on the Livecode lists this year - I ran into a new
problem: Versions that had been installed and working properly before
using my new Indy license now require a re-licensing process using the
respective neccessary password of the version I tried to open. This
worked for LC 6.6 - as an example - because the license password
apparently had not changed between LC 6 and 8, but I could not find an
appropriate password for LC 4.6.1, for me by far the fastest LC version
available when for instance testing image processing speed.
I find this newly installed monitoring process controlling the validity
of older, but already fully installed versions an outright unnnecessary
nuisance. Is this part of the new licensing policies that restrict the
use of LC-Indy versions to the license span you have paid for? I have
got a commercial version extending until August 2016, which - as I
understand it - enables me to use (and produce standalones) with this
commercial version even beyond August 2016.
With the Indy version that I have bought as an extension package valid
from August 2016 to August 2018 this has apparently changed, and - and
this is what I consider an unnessary nuissance - is already being
applied to my still existing and paid-for commercial versions until
August 2016. I would like to get a definite answer to these questions,
and I suggest to return to the old licensing policy - granting the right
to use and build standalones with paid-for versions forever, thereby of
course loosing the right to get upgrades after the license span has expired.
I think these changes to the license system will not result in
substantial monetary profits for Livecode.-
To Peter, concerning my critique of the Livecode development
organisation in my post of Dec 12:
It would be a good idea for the Livecode team to really begin an
organized development process (following established rules and
practices of professional software development) including with proper
testing of old and new features before releasing new versions.
You had answered:
In the core dev team, we use our test lab to test every installer we
release on a wide range of operating systems in various different
configurations.
I am aware that the situation has improved and understand that you
really test new versions before releasing them and that overall Livecode
development is much more organized now than a couple of years ago. I
appreciate such changes very much, having specific test stacks ready and
using them, but of course there is the question of the structure and
functions of these test stacks and how and at what times they are being
applied. Usable test stacks should be able to address foreseeable more
complex constellations, e.g. not testing a stack with a few buttons,
fields, images etc., but as an example with perhaps 500 buttons, 1000
fields, 100 groups, and a lot of internal data saved in custom
properties etc.
As an example, the severe slowdown of image processing speed from
versions 4.6.1 though LC 8 (which I described in detail in various posts
this year) apparently occurred totally unnoticed from the side of the
Livecode team. So I think there is still some room and the necessity for
improving the organisation of testing new and old features (that might
be affected by new changes).
Kind regards,
Wilhelm Sanke
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