Looking through the posts from people who have been struggling to install routes lately, and looking through the responses from old hands trying to help them, I wonder whether we could all benefit from a method of verifying the individual folders within a route.
If each folder has a checksum which is created from the checksums of the files within that folder, and if those checksums were then published in the appropriate place within this site, then installs of new routes could be checked by compaing the MD5 sums on the user's machine with the quoted MD5 sums.
Possibly something that could be done within RouteRiter?
Verifying route installations
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As the majority of the installation problems we see tend towards 'liveware' problems rather than any fault with the zipsfiles themselves, I'm not sure that there's any advantage in your suggestion.
WinZip checks its own integrity, Matt's approval process checks the library file integrity, your download manager and TCP/IP check the downloaded file for integrity - how much more do you need?
Most problems, if you really read them, stem from people either not reading or not understanding the instructions given for installing the file once they have it. Adding a checksum is not going to help this - it's just the way some people are. They have trouble understanding the precise nature of software; Computers are strictly logical and you cannot approximate with them; people are not, and they do.
WinZip checks its own integrity, Matt's approval process checks the library file integrity, your download manager and TCP/IP check the downloaded file for integrity - how much more do you need?
Most problems, if you really read them, stem from people either not reading or not understanding the instructions given for installing the file once they have it. Adding a checksum is not going to help this - it's just the way some people are. They have trouble understanding the precise nature of software; Computers are strictly logical and you cannot approximate with them; people are not, and they do.
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