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Use scripts to improve install process for Lotus Notes
Authored by: MrLint on Nov 21, '08 12:39:05PM

I'm sorry but obviously I disagree with you. I *have* had problems, repeatedly. Particularly when upgrading from 6.5.x. As for the being broken, while its not so much broken in the sense that I guess it does what it intends to do. It just does things wrong.

1) I can't think of any other app that the admin would install, that the user would need to run the installer again to make it functional. And as LN falls into the 'Groupware' category of software, this problem is even more stark.

2) The installer has no multi-user setup. I don't know why is was designed this way. But it's not on parity with the installer for windows of the same version.

3) The mere fact that the "SharedDataDirectory" directory works on the Mac, but the setup has no way to leverage it (which is does for 7.0.x on windows), seems to indicate that it wasn't intended to be used by more than one person per machine.

4) As LN create the needed databases from the template files and doesn't actually change the templates in anyway, putting a full set up templates, (including foreign language dictionaries and modem definition scripts) in each user's profile, [more than 135M] is just bad design. Design this bad I consider broken.

5) This setup can be used to drop/update LN via ssh. You wouldn't have to visit the user. It also gets around the installer script OS version check. (7.0.2 would not install on 10.5)

As a note, 6.5.4 of LN for windows had a multi user install setup and honors the SharedDataDirectory.



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