On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:20:55AM +1000, fish wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:42:28AM -0700, Todd Walton wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > This is the weekly Freenet Project job jar update. > > > Comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > OPEN JOBS > > > --------- > > > > > > * Produce a Kaffe-bundled distro of Fred. > > > > http://firenze.linux.it/~giannibi/easyfreenet/ > > This comes up regularly when the jobjar is posted, it seems. Anyhow, > it doens't count. From the page in question: > > (begin quote) > Warning. Freenet developers have discontinued compatibility with the free > Kaffe JVM in builds 599 and higher due to the introduction of NIO technology, > which is not yet supported by Kaffe. This looks like plain nonsense to me > since it means to sacrifice Freenet's main goals to performance issues. > The bottom line is that privacy and anonymity simply cannot be guaranteed > by software relying on other proprietary, closed-source software. > > The latest release of Easyfreenet comes with build 598, which is the most > recent build known to run under Kaffe without major problems. Therefore, > you must not perform the upgrade to the latest snapshot or you'll get an > unusable installation. > (end quote)
Unfortunately, 598 has a nasty bug in the HTML filter. So you will need to turn off image support in your browser to run it, or maintain a fork with this fix. Sorry. Oh and please stop including ^M's in your emails. > > So, yes, fixing Kaffe-NIO is a prerequisite for this goal, just as > fixing GCJ's NIO is a prerequisite for the GCJ binary distro task. > > -- from fish with love > -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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