On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:03:14PM -0400, S M wrote: > On 9/14/05, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:29:13PM -0400, S M wrote: > > > *More support / communication for developers of applications for > > Freenet. As > > > jrandom said about I2P/IP/TCP: "I2P by itself is pretty useless, but in > > the > > > way IP by itself is pretty useless - who cares whether you can send > > packets > > > on the internet if you don't have good applications to send them with? " > > > Freenet is ok, but as much support as is possible should be given to > > people > > > interesting in making applications that work with Freenet. You'll have > > to > > > talk to the developers of these applications to see what their needs > > are, > > > many are coming back so it can be a good time to ask them. > > > > I'd like to talk to them. I am told that there is much going on on the > > Frost boards, and we have seen some new apps e.g. pm4pigs, but people > > seem to avoid talking directly to us for some reason.. probably this > > would be helped by working freemail integrated into the lists, some sort > > of CVS replacement that works over freenet, etc. > > > If there was a freemail and CVS over Freenet that would be good. Anonymous > email (freemail) might be a killer application, like hushmail but even > better security.
We *have* freemail, it just happens to be written in python, and tends to use 100% cpu for no good reason. > > As for Frost not being included because of 'political' reasons, umm...ok. > > To the general users: It should be easy enough to 'route around' this kind > of crapola by having someone just make a package of Freenet applications > that many people would probably use (like an XAMPP package but instead of > PHP / MYSQL its Freenet stuff). Who ever is good with installers, this is > your calling <wink>. The 'someone' to do this could be me since the > applications generally do not seem to be being updated with much frequency > on Freenet if someone wants to help with the installer and making sure > everything compiles correctly. > > SM -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20050916/03ddc6d7/attachment.pgp>
