David, Do you want to create a FCPTools page on the main Freenet website? If so, I can explain how the Freenet web system works (everything is kept in CVS and automatically transferred to the website every so often).
Ian. On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:45:54PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > Hi all, > > I've moved all the key FCPtools code out of FreeWeb CVS and into the freenet >project's official CVS, under /Contrib/fcptools. > > You can access via cvs/ssh, or browse the tree at > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freenet/Contrib/fcptools > > I've relinquished ownership of fcptools because: > > 1) fcptools is multi-platform and written in straight C, versus FreeWeb which is >shamelessly windows-only and only compiles in MS Visual C++ > > 2) FCPtools is being used by a much larger audience than FreeWeb. So it's >accommodation on the FreeWeb site is no longer appropriate > > 3) I want (to hobx's revulsion) to concentrate on windows GUI stuff. > > 4) It would be lovely to see fcptools benefit from a larger community's involvement >in its evolution. > > Please note: > > 1) FCPtools will soon be removed from the FreeWeb site > > 2) Anyone working on FCPtools, please get CVS access to the Freenet project (if you >haven't > already). > > 3) Please Please - DO NOT commit anything to FreeWeb CVS form now on - instead, >commit to Freenet CVS > > 4) If anything in Contrib/fcptools on Freenet cvs is broken, then fix it - I >apologise - don't revert to the copy on the FreeWeb cvs > > Folks, enjoy fcptools. It gives me great pleasure to hand it over to the wider >freenet community. May it empower client-writers everywhere, and help Freenet to >reach a bigger audience faster. > > But *please* keep it multi-platform. > If you're linux-only, and you make any substantial changes, then please arrange for >someone with msvc (sebastian, myself, \x90 and many others) to integrate your changes >into the windows build. > This is serious. > Again, PLEASE KEEP THE WINDOWS BUILDS WORKING AND CURRENT. > > Cheers > David >
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