How about instead of bundling this is done via the installer? There would be a 3rd-party tools section, that can be checked/unchecked for installation. The users would then have a choice to install frost, pm4pigs, etc.. This would eliminate the distinction issue of freenet vs 3rd-party freeenet tools.
On 2/12/06, NextGen$ <nextgens at freenetproject.org> wrote: > > * Julien Cornuwel <batosai at batosai.net> [2006-02-12 13:20:35]: > > > Matthew Toseland a ?crit : > > > > >I propose that with 0.7.0, we bundle, assuming they are of release > > >quality and we don't have to do any major work to get them up to > > >scratch: > > >- Frost > > >- Freemail and/or pm4pigs > > >- FIW > > > > > >Obviously we will also include Fproxy (this might be via a plugin, but > > >will be included, and run in the same VM, either way). > > > > > >IMHO the above would greatly increase the first-time usability of > > >Freenet. > > > > > > > > > > I agree with that. > > > > Most new freenet users are afraid by the number of softwares to install > > before being able to use it properly. > > I think Frost and FIW are mandatory and easy to add to the package > > because they both use Java. > > > > I don't know about Freemail but I'm sure pm4pigs uses Python. > > My opinion is that Frost's private-messaging option is enough for > > starting-up. > > pm4pigs code is ugly and "insecure"... Freemail was in python too ; > It will have to be rewritten by the way, if I do it, it will be in > java : probably as a plugin for fred... > > so bundling it wouldn't be a problem ;) > > NextGen$. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060213/8636195e/attachment.html>
