Issues with the Windows installer package for svn 1.4

Hi,

I've installed Subversion 1.4 on my Windows machine using the binaries
as provided on the s.t.o website.

During the install I noticed that the text as displayed by the installer
and the text files included in the installed package are either outdated
or incorrect (or both).

Here's a list of things I noticed:

in the .exe installer:
* the opening license doesn't have any paragraphs so it's very difficult
to read. The copyright date is 2004.

* in pre.rtf: 'Subversion are a compelling replacement', copyright date
still 2005.
I've fixed this in r21516

* in pre.rtf: 'Subversion is using some external programs and libraries
included in this package. The proper licenses are in the licenses folder
in the application path created after this installation.'
There is no such folder in the application path, only in the start menu.

* in pre.rtf: the link to CHANGES is the version on trunk instead of the
1.4 version.

* In the closing screen: 'The application may be launched by selecting
the installed icons'. I know this is standard text from the installer,
but in this case there's only a command-line tool installed.

* Buildnotes.txt: package contents list several folders which are not
installed (include, javahl, lib, perl, python). It doesn't list the
helpers folder which is installed. Why is this file called
Buildnotes.txt btw? In the zip package this content can be found in
Readme.txt.

* What does the file svn-proxy-template.reg do?

* The Subversion license file isn't installed, if you click on the
license item in the start menu you get a dialog to search for that file.

* We distribute bdb 4.4 now, but the Berkely License file has 2001 as
it's copyright date, so that's clearly not up to date.

* There's no specific warning that this version uses bdb 4.4. Even the
webpages
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91
and http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html still warn for
the upgrade of 4.2 to 4.3.

* We distribute apr in the package, and the asf license requires us (as
far as I understand it correctly) to include to license file with our
installer(s).

* We distribute neon in the package, so we should include the GPL
license file.

* The zlib library is statically build in the binary (right?), so we
should include their license file: http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html

* We distribute OpenSSL in the package, so we should include their
license: http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html

Note 1: some of this remarks are also applicable to the ZIP package.
Note 2: these are no new issues, apparently the 1.3.2 package has the
same problems.

We should pay much more attention to the quality of the installer, it's
people first acquaintance with the Subversion product and we don't want
to give the impression that we don't care for details, right?

Some of these things need to be checked for every release, I propose we
include those in our release checklist.

I'm willing to look into this and help fixing things but I'd like to
have a second opinion first.

regards,

Lieven.

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Received on Sat Sep 16 21:45:28 2006