On Friday 30 July 2010 18:33:08 Ximin Luo wrote: > A few weeks ago I re-installed my entire computer, and today finally got > around > to re-installing freenet. I took this opportunity to sort through all the > cruft > that's accumulated in my installation, due to years of continual updates, > trying out plugins, trying out development builds, etc etc etc. > > It was a bitch to sort through all the files, and I imagine it must be even > more confusing for a newcomer to understand. It also makes it *very* > difficult > to package Freenet properly for an OS that follows the FHS[1], such as Debian. > > So me and toad have made a page[2] which decribes most of the core program > files. Plugins like Freemail/Freereader/Library etc all add their own crap to > the freenet directory, we haven't done these yet, so feel free to contribute. > > Anyway, I've also made a proposal on a proper directory structure that we can > have freenet (and eventually plugins too) follow, instead of just "dump it in > the main program folder". So please go have a look at [3] and provide some > comments / suggestions. > > Obviously the files will have to retain backwards compatibility etc, and this > may or may not be a lot of work depending on how ad-hoc the current code > stores > files, but I think in the long run this clean-up would be beneficial.
One other thing: UNLESS we abandon local security completely, which I am strongly opposed to but will address separately, anything that is potentially incriminating - the bookmarks list for example - should be merged into the encrypted node database. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100731/2898ca94/attachment.pgp>
