Re: [platform-update-dev] Is there a need: optional features - disabled

[celek@xxxxxxxxxx]

platform-update-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/16/2002 08:12:47 AM:

>
> You said:
> "Try as I might, I cannot recall an example where I was asked to select
> optional portions of a product, then was not able to use them when the
> installation was complete."
>
> My memory of VAJava was that we had to install all possible features,
> things like persistence builder, and so on.  Then we had to start the
> product and load them into our workspace (a huge resource crunch,
> especially for some of the features I used to load - (read two
coffee's)).
> At least that is my memory (faint as it is now).
>
[snip]

Ths philosophy caused more grief and complaints than any other. In some
case the 'install' had three steps (install shield, import into repository
and load into workspace).
trust me when I say user were not happy and that they rather have
install/available.

We appreciate your comments, but IMHO we should wait to see if this is a
trend as we would break the 'defacto' install==available standard

Chris