Could somebody summarise what the plans are, and what the reasons behind them are for:
1. Gradle, 2. Deployment/updating of JARs etc. I get the impression that this has been a major factor preventing forward progress for over a year. This is particularly depressing given that more than five years ago I implemented good auto-update support in fred, including the ability to update different files separately, add new jars and so on, all from the simple file dependencies.properties. It would be very easy to generate the last-resort update scripts from that, provided we can provide a URL to get each component from. Any third-party deployment system will likely not work with Freenet, and even if it does, it won't work reliably with Freenet when nearly anything except the transport layer breaks (unlike the current system). If the goal is to split up freenet-ext.jar that's great, but again that is fundamentally very straightforward and does not require rewriting all the installers and depending on polling a third party web server. So what is going on, and why?
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