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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