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Hi all,
I have forked the Windows Freenet installer into
two versions:
* Freenet Standard
* Freenet Lite
'Freenet Lite' is much the same as past windows
installers, except that it no longer search for or accepts windows java
interpreters. Thus, it will eliminate a whole class of end user installation
problems.
'Freenet Standard' is completely new. It comes with
a full working Sun Java Runtime Environment built in.
On installation, the whole concept of Java is
hidden from the user - no need to search for or select a JRE - it's done
transparently in the background.
Freenet Standard makes Freenet mindlessly easy and
idiot-proof to set up.
I feel it will be popular with the windows user
community.
I even got the file size to less than 6
MB.
Sun's requirements for Java Runtime redistribution
are complied with in full.
I invite people to test these installers, so I've
put them up on my own server.
BTW - both installers tested successfully on Win98
and Win2k.
Note: both these versions contain the 'official'
Freenet.jar version 0.3.8.1
Also, I have uploaded these via CVS to
Contrib/wininstall. Filnames are:
* Freenet-Std-Setup0.3.8.1.exe
* Freenet-Lite-Setup0.3.8.1.exe
along with this, I've split the old 'freenet.nsi'
install gen script into two: 'freenet-std.nsi' and
'freenet-lite.nsi'.
Also, I've uploaded the modified findjava
sources.
I can't go any further with the full release
because I lack SF release developer access.
So one of you admins will have to update the
downloads dir and the download web page accordingly.
Cheers
David
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