* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-06-04 12:34:58]:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2008 05:42, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-06-03 17:24:48]: > > > > > On Monday 02 June 2008 15:13, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > > > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-06-02 15:03:37]: > > > > > > > > > On Monday 02 June 2008 14:47, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > > > > > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-06-02 > 14:15:02]: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Okay, what issues do we have here? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. The processes page takes longer than the copying files page. > > > > > > > In > > > fact, > > > > > most > > > > > > > of the time of the installer is occupied by the processes page. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > IMHO the solution to this is to bundle everything which is > essential > > > with > > > > > the > > > > > > > base installer. Then the processes page will take much less time. > Also > > > we > > > > > > > won't need a separate bundle-installer, so it will be easier to > use in > > > > > places > > > > > > > where the Freenet website is blocked. The downside is the > installer > > > will > > > > > be > > > > > > > significantly bigger. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm not convinced about that > > > > > > > > > > Why? It won't be huge, if we don't bundle any unnecessary Huge Stuff > (see > > > > > below). And it's not small now. > > > > > > > > That means we will have to generate new installers on a regular basis... > > > > I don't like that :p > > > > > > Is there any good reason for this dislike? > > > > Downloading stuffs during the install process actually tests the user's > > connectivity; If we don't do that we will end up with more support > > requests from users having non-freenet-related issues. > > > > Moreover, if we want the "trust-chain" in between us and the newbies to > > be established, we HAVE TO distribute the installer from emu and not > > from mirrors... meaning that it has to be as small as possible if we > > intend to stand a slashdoting. > > > > Arguably we don't distribute the installer ourselves yet... but I was in > > the process of changing that. > > > Well then we'll have to make it a lot smaller than even 3.6MB: we'd want some > sort of minimal shell that downloads a hash from emu and then fetches the > rest from a mirror. I have been working on that; it's 1.5MB now... I am not sure I can strip it down much more without getting rid of functionalities or language files. -------------- 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/20080609/1e83cd76/attachment.pgp>
