On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:19:53PM -0500, edgar wrote:
> > > 3) When run on *nix, the config asks you about the windows installer and
> > > the distribution. stuff.  This is windows only right?  Doesn't the
> > > windows installer do this for you?  Shouldn't these questions be removed
> > > from the --config routine?
> > No, this is for the Distribution Servlet, which when enabled provides
> > something resembling a download mirror of freenet, but using locally
> > generated seednodes - the idea is to make it easy to get freenet from
> > somebody other than freenetproject.org, and use their seednodes; this
> > makes a better network.
> 
> Okay.  But it does ask you about a .exe file.  Thanks got to be windows only. 
>  
> Obviously, not a high priority..
The Distribution Servlet produces a combined cross platform ZIP file,
including the windows installer, the JAR and the unix scripts. By
design.
> 
> > > 4) It would be really nice if storeSize could be specified in Megs or
> > > Gigs in addition to straight bytes.  e.g. The user could type 400M or
> > > 800M or 1G or 6G or whatever.
> >
> > I thought we fixed this ages ago... will look into it
> 
> Thanks.  I assumed you had to type it in bytes because that's what the 
> default 
> is in.  If it does already work for  megs and gigs, it just needs to say it 
> in the description.
> 
> > * frost is crap because a) it's spammable, b) it uses non-redundant
> >   splitfiles and c) it sets a stupid mime type for them.
> 
> yup, freenet is still desperately in need of a killer app for this sort of 
> thing.  b) and c) could be fixed but its that a) thats the fundamental 
> problem with it. that and it floods the hell out of the network but maybe its 
> good for routing..
> 
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