I just discovered on a recent oacs-4-6 checkout that after clicking on
"New Application" in the site-map the drop down field now offers a new
option in the list of available packages: "--Install new package--". I
typed in a name for the new instance, selected that option and was
taken to the apm package installation page.
This would be all great and very convenient, if after finishing the
apm install the package would also have been mounted in that location,
which was not the case. There was just the standard apm message that
the server needs to be restarted for the new packages to be available,
and nothing had been changed in the site-map.
I don't think this behaviour is very helpful since it confuses more
than it saves time. Particularly annoying is the fact that some user
input is ommitted, because the name for the package instance that one
has to fill out is lost.
I wonder if this is just unfinished and the actual intention was to
mount the package automatically after the installation - in that case
I am afraid this would just not be worth the trouble and also it
wouldn't work when the package has a packagename_post_instantiation
proc that won't be available until after a restart.
Couldn't we just change it to offer a link to the apm instead of an
option in the dropdown field?
