[ic] installation issue

[Gert van der Spoel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org [mailto:interchange-
> users-bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Jensen
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:34 PM
> To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> Subject: Re: [ic] installation issue
> 
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Gert van der Spoel wrote:
> 
> > # When the above test fails, it may be due to your ISP or some other
> > # mechanism blocking port 8786.
> > should that be 8786 or 7786?
> > as here it is 7786 http://icdevgroup.org/docs/glossary/link-
> program.html
> > in test.pl it has: $ENV{MINIVEND_PORT} = 8786 unless defined
> > $ENV{MINIVEND_PORT};
> 
> I'll see if I can help more with the installation problem on IRC, but
> the
> reason for port 8786 is that we don't want the test to conflict with an
> already-running Interchange listener on TCP port 7786, so Mike picked
> an
> arbitrary other port for the test.
> 

Thanks Jon, I've reverted it...

But thinking about it: the first time you install there should not be
anything on port 7786.
Now you do not find out that this is the case until you try to actually
start interchange.

Is it a technically big change to use 7786 by default, test if it is
available, if it is not then show a note on that and use 8786?
That way you're covering first time users and the ones installing a new
version ..maybe?

CU,

Gert