On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:54:35AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:52:47PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > My main problem with freenet atm is that it crashes all the time. This > > is apparently a problem with Kaffe. One could argue that it is a release > > stopper, since freenet is supposed to work with free software, > > I strongly disagree, it is hard enough to get a release out without > adding yet-another precondition (Kaffe working correctly) over which we > have little or no control. Freenet can be used with free JVMs, but I > don't think we should punish ourselves for bugs in those JVMs, if > someone really wants to use Freenet they can pester Kaffe to fix their > bugs.
I agree. We do our part to target kaffe, but we cannot be responsible for it's stability. > > but I > > have no idea how to fix it. And I don't think 0.5 is close, there's > > plenty to do first (for example ARKs). > > Do we really want to implement every idea we have thought of prior to > 0.5? I don't think so. My criteria for 0.5 release is fixing current > bugs, I think all the features we need are already in-there (not to say > that more can't be added before 0.5, but 0.5 shouldn't be delayed > because of them). We can't go up a number until the datastore issues are resolved, but beyond that I don't think we need to wait for more features. > I have never really understood what is so great about ARKs anyway - > exactly what are the symptoms of the problem ARKs resolve? Most DSL users have IP addresses that change semi-regularly. -- Oskar Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
