On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:46, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> [2008-12-11 19:18:30]: > > > > Disadvantages: > > > - Have to do some work on emu. > > That alone is a good reason why *not* to do it. I don't see why > installers should be auto-built nor built from emu for that matter.
I believe I and Zero3 have given several reasons: > > ADVANTAGES: > > - Security: Once you have obtained the installer, somehow (over Tor, from a > > friend, etc etc), you can run it without needing to fetch it from the > > website. People in hostile environments won't accidentally fetch the wrong > > version of the installer over Tor and then run it and reveal themselves. And > > us having less idea how many people are running it is arguably an advantage. > > - Performance: The actual installation should take less time to complete. > > - Simplicity: It would reduce the number of stages in the install, especially > > for non-IzPack installers. > > > > + removal of the website as a Single Point of Failure. Nextgens wrote: > > > > - Very few of the developers run Windows, or are familiar with AHK, so if we > > > DO need to change this, it will be a little problematic. > > > > > I will be away February-May for military service. I do get free time > > (that's what they say at least :P), but I don't know how much time I > > will have to do Freenet stuff during those periods. > > > Needless to say that an unmaintained installer is useless. We had many > different ones in the past... see what they became. Yes, however it will be easier to rebuild this one, since we're sure we can build it on emu (and we won't do it if we can't). And IMHO it won't need much maintenance because all the config is in the node's first-time wizard which you wrote. > > > I'd argue that most > > coders can figure out how AHK works quite easily though. There are a > > bunch of examples on the AHK site (e.g. > > http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/VolumeOSD.htm) if anyone is > > interested. > > > > We all have soooo much free time on our hands that we would eager learn > that new, windows-only technology. Agreed, we don't want to have to hack on it ... > Oh, and that's also why we do have a > native windows installer since before 0.7 started too btw. What was the problem with it? Did we try to config in it? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081212/550d06d6/attachment.pgp>
