2008/12/31 Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>: > Various users complained about Freenet adding a user to run under. But I > really don't see what we could do differently... one user said it changed the > login screen for XP, I've heard this before too, it may be that there is no > solution. :|
IMHO this is yet another example of us trying to crow-bar third-party software into behaving in a way that its not really designed to behave, for (often dubious) reasons of "security". The result is that we waste a lot of dev time kludging 3rd party software, we inevitably piss off users who don't like it when software does this type of thing, and the benefit is questionable. We should ensure that Freenet is secure, but if we make it our problem to ensure that every tool that might be used in conjunction with Freenet is also secure, then we and our users are in for a world of pain. > "Difficult to understand how to execute on macs." True, Mac users have different expectations for how software is installed - for example most Mac apps are installed by dragging the application from a DMG virtual disk to their Applications folder. The app then does one-time configuration stuff the first time its run. Any Mac devs out there interested in packaging Freenet for the Mac? Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: ian at uprizer.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 Fax: +1 512 276 6674
