On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:49:24AM -0500, Dominic Anello wrote:
> While the subject of the installer is being discussed, I thought I'd
> mention that the behavior of the install generated by the distribution
> servlet is not what the "Node Distribution System" download page would
> lead you to believe.  
> 
> Under "Installation Instructions" is says:
> "Download the Installation Zipfile and unzip. On Windows, run install.exe..."
> 
> However, there is no install.exe in the ZIP or the distribution
> directory.  There is a freenet-webinstall.exe, but this installer just
> downloads the latest freenet.jar and seednodes.ref from hawk, which
> kinda defeats the purpose.

AAARGH. I WAS REPEATEDLY TOLD BY OIERW THAT THIS WORKED. Please provide
me with an installer EXE that DOES do what it is supposed to, i.e. use
the seednodes and jar from the dir that it is unpacked into if
available and in a dir called freenet-distribution/.
> 
> I looked through the Contrib and freenet modules from CVS and neither
> contained an install.exe I could add to my distribution directory or an
> obvious way I could build one from linux.
> 
> I also downloaded a freenet.zip from Matthew's servlet and got the same
> set of files I get from mine.
> 
> Is there any proposed fix for this?
> 
> -- 
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> seeing us, would find it irresistible. -Gene Wolf
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