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Bug 118588 - Add button to skip java search
Summary: Add button to skip java search
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: installer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@installer
URL:
Keywords: USABILITY
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-10-11 17:39 UTC by Egor Ushakov
Modified: 2007-10-12 13:43 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Exception Reporter:

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Install log (498.94 KB, text/plain)
2007-10-11 17:50 UTC, Egor Ushakov 		Details
Configuring installer action (34.88 KB, image/png)
2007-10-12 12:09 UTC, dlipin 		Details
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Description Egor Ushakov 2007-10-11 17:39:35 UTC 
Please add "Skip" button to the screen where installer searching for java,
on the next screen it asks for it anyway and it takes too long on my machine.
Comment 1 dlipin 2007-10-11 17:45:09 UTC 
Could you please attach installation log file (available at at~/.nbi/log)?
maybe we should reduce the number of possible JDK locations or improbe the search (e.g. do not search in directories 
starting with dot)
Comment 2 Egor Ushakov 2007-10-11 17:50:46 UTC 
Created attachment 50709 [details]
Install log
Comment 3 dlipin 2007-10-11 18:45:55 UTC 
The Java search procedure has been improved. Now the overall search is performed at least 3 times faster than it was 
before. 
It doesn`t search in dotted directories and do invoke Thread.sleep(5) instead of Thread.sleep(50) when changing the 
investigation location.
Comment 4 Egor Ushakov 2007-10-12 12:03:30 UTC 
I'll try that. Thanks!
BTW for me it looks strange to have this progress bar with strange folders blinking at all,
maybe it is better to show something like "Gathering system information..." without any forders.
With such caption I agree to wait as long as needed.
Comment 5 dlipin 2007-10-12 12:08:14 UTC 
gorrus,

this progress bar has been removed. 
Instead of it the installer now performes initial configuration that also search for java (Configuring Installer, see 
screenshot) and no blinking messages are shown below the progress bar.

So give a try to the latest build :)
http://bits.netbeans.org/download/6.0/nightly/latest/
Comment 6 dlipin 2007-10-12 12:09:30 UTC 
Created attachment 50801 [details]
Configuring installer action
Comment 7 Egor Ushakov 2007-10-12 12:25:59 UTC 
Great! That's just what I expected :)
Will try that as soon as new nightly is ready.
Comment 8 dlipin 2007-10-12 12:29:14 UTC 
actually, it is already there - in that build tha link points to:) the build finished a couple of hours ago.
Comment 9 Egor Ushakov 2007-10-12 12:42:13 UTC 
I have just tried that, really cool!
Nice and fast, no strange folders, thanks!
Comment 10 dlipin 2007-10-12 13:41:49 UTC 
well.. then, wontfix :)
Comment 11 jrojcek 2007-10-12 13:43:40 UTC 
On Windows we should not do the JDK scan at all. Just read the registry for installer JDKs. The reason is that we should not slow down the whole installation 
just for the rare case of improperly installed JDK. Slow installation worsens very first impressions when evaluating the IDE.