current download routine delivers an outdated installer

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current download routine delivers an outdated installer

Post by grahamperrin » Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:02 am

At the home page, the Download ZEVO routine (agreement to the End User License Agreement (EULA)) delivers an outdated installer.

We have the announcements sub-forum, and the update feature within the GUI to ZEVO, but there's probably an assumption that initial download of the product will be of the most recent release.

Suggestion

Soon after each new release:

  • make current the download that's associated with the license agreement routine.

Thanks

(I used the site feedback form to draw attention to this topic.)

Postscript

An afterthought: the current update – ZEVOCommunityUpdate-1_1_1.dmg (reference) – may be not a full installer.
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Re: current download routine delivers an outdated installer

Post by grahamperrin » Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:54 pm

the current update – ZEVOCommunityUpdate-1_1_1.dmg (reference) – may be not a full installer.


ZFSDriver in the full installer for Community Edition 1.1
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Minor update to 1.1.1 – without ZFSDriver
minor update to 1.1.1 – without ZFSDriver.png
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Could an improvement to the full installation routine include a check for an update?

I guess, the trick would be to avoid contention between two packages (in Installer.app) both requiring a restart of the computer.
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Re: current download routine delivers an outdated installer

Post by TomUnderhill » Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:47 pm

grahamperrin wrote:An afterthought: the current update – ZEVOCommunityUpdate-1_1_1.dmg (reference) – may be not a full installer.

The Update is only that, an update, and not a full install.
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Re: current download routine delivers an outdated installer

Post by grahamperrin » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:04 am

(Quick start guide hats on.) Thanks Tom. As related issues were noted in a number of topics, I've been toying with forms of wording that might reduce the user's level of surprise, when it's realised that what's downloaded is not the most recent thing.

Recent wording:

> When you accept the licence agreement, you get the full installer (not the smaller update).

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