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On Friday 24 January 2003 04:18 am, Dave Hooper wrote:
> >> > Nodeconfig is majorly broken. It needs to be fixed in such a way to be
> >> > updatable easily (allowing for easy conversions between moving config
> >> > options and such). I never figured out a good way to do it.
> >>
> >> Why not use GTK or somesuch, and simply add each option, allowing GTK to
> >> organize the options? You could have freenet export a list of options at
> >> startup in an easily-parsable form (XML?).
> >
> > It does - kinda.  Try running it with the "--manual" command line option.
>
> That would be a good starting point but there's a lot of aesthetic
> information required if an ok-for-Windows-users-to-use UI is to be
> generated from a parsable output.  If you've seen Nodeconfig you'll know
> what I mean - it's not just a multi-paged dialog with lists of options.
> We would need a basic specification language to organise the options
> ourselves rather than have the interface elements organised automatically.
> If there's any simple tools to do this on Windows information would be
> greatly appreciated!

Why not configure it in the freenet server itself? Set up a servlet that 
parses the configuration options available and generates HTML. We'd need 
hooks for on-the-fly option updating, of course. This'd also make upping the 
maximum HTL easier, by sending some command to do so and updating on-the-fly.
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