Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-02-23 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 06:16:39PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > It would be nice if the Freenet Windows installer could take the URL of > a distribution node from which it could download the files it needs, > rather than defaulting to the central server. Maybe with the option of just using the nod

Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-02-23 Thread Ian Clarke
It would be nice if the Freenet Windows installer could take the URL of a distribution node from which it could download the files it needs, rather than defaulting to the central server. If there was some way that Freenet could distribute it, and somehow tell it what URL to default to - that wo

Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-02-23 Thread Ian Clarke
> Yes, it had : UpdateSnapshot.exe has been superseded by just running > freenet-webinstaller (there's no point having two binaries that do > essentially the same thing). One nice feature would be that if the user's last update was to freenet-unstable, then this is the default for future upgrades

Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-02-23 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:43:02AM -, Dave Hooper wrote: > > Very nice! Seems to work fine for me here. > > Which OS is that? XP. > This will appear when the webinstaller has 'automatic' and 'custom' modes. > Automatic will just be the current "keep on clicking Next" variety, which > will i

Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-02-23 Thread Dave Hooper
> Very nice! Seems to work fine for me here. Which OS is that? I'd especially like people running non-Windows 2000 to test this version out if they can, as well as folks with older, slower hardware to see if the changes to java launching/killing have caused any unexpected problems. > I notice t

Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-02-23 Thread Ian Clarke
Very nice! Seems to work fine for me here. I notice that updatesnapshot.exe no-longer seems to be part of the distro - is this deliberate? Further, with snapshot updating, (and/or during installation), it would be nice to give the user the option to install the unstable snapshot (with all app

[freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-02-23 Thread Dave Hooper
Windows freenet systray app has been updated to periodically probe the Web Interface port on startup and only enable certain behaviour if a connection can be made. Specifically the following *won't work* now unless/until a connection can be made to mainport: 1. Specifying -open on command line t

[freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-01-22 Thread Dave Hooper
If anyone wants to try an updated freenet.exe before the next windows release, download from here: http://www.beermex.com/@spc/freenet/latest/freenet.exe This is NOT an installer - you'll need to manually stop and exit freenet, download the above file (don't run it) and copy it into your Freenet d

Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-01-21 Thread Ian Clarke
Oh, on this subject, it would also be nice if the "Upgrade Freenet" thingie had an option to upgrade to the development snapshot. Ian. On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:59:30PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > Nice! We should get this in ASAP. > > It would be nice if "Track tail of file" was selected by def

[freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-01-21 Thread Ian Clarke
Oh, on this subject, it would also be nice if the "Upgrade Freenet" thingie had an option to upgrade to the development snapshot. Ian. On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:59:30PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > Nice! We should get this in ASAP. > > It would be nice if "Track tail of file" was selected by def

Re: [freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-01-21 Thread Ian Clarke
Nice! We should get this in ASAP. It would be nice if "Track tail of file" was selected by default. Ian. On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:35:12AM -, Dave Hooper wrote: > If anyone wants to try an updated freenet.exe before the next windows > release, download from here: > http://www.beermex.com/@

[freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-01-21 Thread Ian Clarke
Nice! We should get this in ASAP. It would be nice if "Track tail of file" was selected by default. Ian. On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:35:12AM -, Dave Hooper wrote: > If anyone wants to try an updated freenet.exe before the next windows > release, download from here: > http://www.beermex.com/@

[freenet-dev] Updated freenet.exe

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Hooper
If anyone wants to try an updated freenet.exe before the next windows release, download from here: http://www.beermex.com/@spc/freenet/latest/freenet.exe This is NOT an installer - you'll need to manually stop and exit freenet, download the above file (don't run it) and copy it into your Freenet d