On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:44:48PM -0500, bdonlan wrote:
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> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 05:33 pm, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > > > Write a ConfigServlet and drop that f*cking nodeconfig.exe. SCNR.
> > >
> > > We'd still need the installer to call the browser with the
> > > ConfigServlet. Users expect dialog boxes, so sooner or later some fool
> > > will do the same again. Unless we integrate a dialog-box-based full GUI
> > > config utility :<
> >
> > I am not sure I understand the logic here.  In truth, Freenet should be
> > able to get going using sensible defaults even if there isn't a
> > freenet.conf file at all. Once it is up and running, a config servlet
> > could be used to create/modify settings.  This would have the advantage
> > of automatically synchronizing the configurator with new options as they
> > appear.
> >
> > > Ian once said something about cross platform java based installers... if
> > > we could just distribute the JAR, and have running the jar bring up
> > > either a text mode config or a GUI configurator?
> >
> > I think an .exe is probably better, since it is what people expect on
> > Windows.
> 
> We could make one that's a shell for IE, and a runner for the config servlet.

Um, you mean a shell for Mozilla?

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