[CapacitorSet]

Some impressions right after the download:

* I can't see why I have to give my e-mail address.

* The Electron setup process is very nice! Though, I wouldn't have minded a lightweight installer, with little more than a wrapper around curl.

* After installing the software, I can't see it anywhere - nor from the XFCE app finder, nor in $PATH. I know I should read the documentation, but it'd be nice if I could at least find it from the app finder (it's a matter of adding .desktop files, I think?).

[wdanilo]

Thank you for your your impressions, we would try to improve it as much as we can. Answering your ideas: 1) You do NOT have to provide your email address, just type there anything if you don't want to provide your real address (it is not validated in any way), however, we would be very thankful if you provide your address, so we can track now how many people are using Luna and if there are any problems happening when you are using it. The detailed logs we collect are described here: http://www.luna-lang.org/alpha-data.html

2) Thank you! If you have any ideas how to make it more lightweight and still work across all platforms, while providing users with the easiest possible installation experience (double click and install using a graphical installer without any manual configuration), please tell us about it using github issues here: https://github.com/luna/luna-manager We would love to simplify it if that would be possible! We were focusing on delivering unified experience across all platforms and it is important for us, especially when we will be targetting not only developers (but also domain experts, like bioinformatics, IoT developers etc) in the near future.

3) I would be thankful if you create issue regarding lack of proper XFCE support and tell us what the installer should do on XFCE. I know that it is working correctly under Gnome and KDE. You can find Luna installation in ~/.luna/bin/luna-studio/current/luna-studio :)

[qwerty456127]

There is little (if any) virtue in developing a single installer to work on all platforms. People want a drag-and-drop app image for Mac, a PPA repository for Ubuntu and an MSI package for Windows and/or a simple "just extract and run" archive for their platform.

[wdanilo]

When we are thinking about simple installation process, you are completely right! However, when creating Luna, we were aware that if it will be used in real-world environment and people will create big projects using it, we would need to handle installation and updating in a very careful way. So our "installer" allows you to install and manage many Luna versions side-by side and switch between them on demand. So if something stopped working after an update, you can be sure that switching to previous version would work. These kind of tasks are handled by Luna Manager currently, which is connected to the simple Electron GUI. So even if we provide such "native" installation functionality, we would need some lightweight gui system if we would like to keep this secure installation management. We will definitely look for more lightweight solutions here.

[joshumax]

It took me a bit of reading through the luna-manager sources but it appears to install it to $HOME/.luna/bin

[wdanilo]

I'm happy that you are already familiar a little bit with Luna code! Now if you want, you can contribute to the project easily! :D

Answering a little more serious, the installation path on any Unix system is described in our documentation here: https://luna-lang.gitbooks.io/docs/content/installation.html :)