On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:32:31PM -0500, bdonlan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:26 pm, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:44:48PM -0500, bdonlan wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > 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? > > Not everyone has mozilla installed, and we don't want to bloat the installer > by including a copy. Every windows machine has IE.
They will need Mozilla to browse freenet safely. Technically they could config it in IE and then use it from Mozilla :) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+TA7vx533NjVSos4RAiH8AJ4xxy9ftEFcMYDe9IihVI3Gww/RyQCggOe7 > rfGUWops7wk1a66wgFTYBeQ= > =aDrc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://amphibian.dyndns.org:8889/GrUSky5aKh4/ ICTHUS.
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