Matthew Toseland a ?crit : > On Tuesday 25 November 2008 14:10, Zero3 wrote: >> Ian Clarke skrev: >>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> wrote: >>> >>>> but assuming Linux is the future, and Linux apps ought to be packaged > anyway, we only have Windows >>>> and Mac left, leaving less reason >>> An unwarranted assumption. > > As a convicted linux/Free Software zealot, I still have to side with Ian here. >>> >> True. But don't you agree that Linux is gaining market share at the >> moment, that these new users prefer the easy GUI-based distros like >> Ubuntu, and the de-facto standard of installing software on these >> distros are via packaging systems? Getting Freenet packaged (and >> prepared to be such properly) and available in the Debian/Ubuntu >> repository seems like a great step towards a more user-friendly >> installation on Freenet on Linux.
Maybe there is another option. Look at the package flashplugin-nonfree... Maybe we could create a package that just contains necessary scripts to run a freenet node and downloads latest jars from official mirrors. With auto-update on, this could be usable. I'll have a look at in soon, so you can decide to make it official or not. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081125/a761845b/attachment.pgp>
