Ya know .. I don't get some things.
Especially, things like .. if I get an application, I want it to work. And if an application doesn't work for some reason, I don't want to first become an expert on that application to understand why it doesn't work, and how to fix it.
Why not ? Well, I simply don't have time, and I have other things to do. I'm not 15 anymore, nor I'm retired. So, I don't have the time.
I wouldn't mind learning one application, but there are many of them, and I can't. I'm only human.
Why all this fuss ? I installed Linux8.0 Redhat, and wu-ftpd doesn't refused login. I look here and there, and finally try something. Now it accepts login, but refuses valid passwords.
... I looked some more, found nothing. I looked at the manuals, not much there. Ok, scrap 8.0, load 7.3. Same thing. Ok, back to 8.0 again... tons of time lost by now.
still nothing. I hope some day I'll get it to work.
So, here are my thoughts:
1. If I am to design an application, whether it's for Linux or Windows, I will make it USER FRIENDLY. It will run on its first install. It will run and work, even if I have to put assumed variables into .config file.
2. I will make config files easy.
3. Installation of my program will be easy.
I mean, check out the INSTALL file of Jakarta Struts project:
To install it you need to:
- (*) Download and install a Java2
- Download and install an XML parser
- Download and install the JDBC 2.0 Optional Package Binary
- (*) Download and install a servlet container
- (*) Download and unpack a Struts binary distribution.
- (*) Install the Struts documentation application
- Install the Struts example
- (*) Copy the files "lib/struts*.tld" ....
- (*) Copy the file "lib/struts.jar" ......
- (*) Modify your "WEB-INF/web.xml" ...
- (*) Modify the "WEB-INF/web.xml"
- Create a file "WEB-INF/struts-config.xml" ......
- (*) In each JSP page that will use the Struts custom tags, add a line at.....
- When compiling your web application components, be sure that .
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How about just creating a .bat file that does it all for you ? Or, in Linux, a script file ? Didn't think of that ? Hummm..
I am all for making life easier for people, not harder. It's hard enough as it is.
Dennis
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