> Very nice!  Seems to work fine for me here.

Which OS is that?  I'd especially like people running non-Windows 2000 to
test this version out if they can, as well as folks with older, slower
hardware to see if the changes to java launching/killing have caused any
unexpected problems.

> I notice that updatesnapshot.exe no-longer seems to be part of the
> distro - is this deliberate?

yes - I commented on this issue a couple days ago in devl.  However it seems
the list archives may have stopped running.  The latest post I could find in
this months archive was around about the 7th Feb.

> Further, with snapshot updating, (and/or during installation), it would
> be nice to give the user the option to install the unstable snapshot
> (with all appropriate warnings about instability).

This will appear when the webinstaller has 'automatic' and 'custom' modes.
Automatic will just be the current "keep on clicking Next" variety, which
will install freenet-latest.jar, whereas Custom will let you pick between
freenet-latest.jar and freenet-unstable-latest.jar (as well as providing
additional installation tweaks)

> It would also be
> nice if the update could be done from the task-tray menu, not just the
> Start menu entry.

I'm planning to add a menu option, "Check For Updates", which does just
that.  This will not appear until freenet-webinstall.exe can look for
updated versions of itself from snapshots (it doesn't currently update
itself if run from local, although if you download an updated webinstaller
from snapshots it does copy itself into the freenet directory), and also
until there's some intelligence in determining if files have updated (i.e.
checking timestamps / MD5 checksums / what-have-you), otherwise it will just
install whatever's the latest (and not Check)

> Perhaps the UpdateSnapshot.exe program could be replaced by just
> re-running the installer - possibly with a command-line option to change
> text where appropriate (from "install" to "upgrade").

Yes, it had : UpdateSnapshot.exe has been superseded by just running
freenet-webinstaller (there's no point having two binaries that do
essentially the same thing).  You'll notice the your Start Menu "Update
Snapshot" shortcut actually points to freenet-webinstall.exe  (assuming
you've used the recent freenet-webinstall!)
A command-line option is proposed to alter the behaviour slightly (it will
prevent freenet-webinstall.exe looking in the local directory for current
files, a behaviour which is necessary only for freenet-distribution) and
there's no reason why it couldn't be used to also change the screen text.

d


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