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.

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