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Bug 460830

Summary: Prompt for license before contacting the server
Product: [Tools] Oomph Reporter: Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Component: SetupAssignee: Eike Stepper <stepper>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: dennis.huebner, mike.milinkovich, stepper
Version: 1.1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Pascal Rapicault CLA 2015-02-25 12:18:48 EST 
With the current workflow, when I hit the install button, a progress bar is shown making me think that the installation is going to proceed w/o me. As such I live the computer. However when I come back, I see in horror that the install process is stuck asking me to accept a license. Eclipse is not installed. This is very frustrating. 
The installer should prompt for licenses before contacting the servers so that when I see progress happening I can do away and return to a fully installed eclipse.
Comment 1 Dennis Huebner CLA 2015-02-26 02:57:49 EST 
It's maybe a dump question, but how should installer know, which licenses are included in a package w/o contacting the servers p2 repository? It is possible that there are different licenses in to accept, or at least different versions of EPL.
Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2015-02-26 11:42:07 EST 
(Note that I'm talking about this in the context of the simple installer being created to replace the EPP downloads, not the general oomph installer).

At this point, the installer is able to present the set of EPP packages to install w/o contacting the p2 repos. Therefore, it should be able to obtain the licenses from the same source from where it obtained the list of packages.
Comment 3 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-02-26 12:12:17 EST 
The (simple) installer has not been created (just) to replace the EPP downloads. That's one of its capabilities, but it has been created to simplify the installation of arbitrary Eclipse products that are registered in a reachable product catalog.

We have discussed the option to ask users to accept at least the EPL (maybe the APL?) before they even get to the normal installer UI(s).
Comment 4 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2015-02-26 12:13:28 EST 
Is there a document that describes all the goals of this new installer?
Comment 5 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-02-26 12:21:55 EST 
No.
Comment 6 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-04-02 01:59:50 EDT 
The Foundation allows us to treat the two different SUA formats that exist in Luna SR2 and Mars (currently M6) as one. I'll add a one-time prompt for that at the beginning of an install process. That will not guarantee that no other licenses will need prompting later in the process, but should at least help with the simple "install an EPP package" cases.