>I understand where you are coming from, and at the moment I am fairly evenly 
>split between considering zip vs bzip2.

please try to stick to plain stupid zip if you have to.
not only because it's been around with the jre for some time, so we can assume it's 
mostly bugfree, but mainly because i worry for 3rd party freenet nodes.

fred, the reference freenet node implementation has some really nasty "features" which 
make re-engineering of a freenet node using a different language or done by a 
different person a horrible PITA and nearly 
unaccomplishable!
for what i can currently see, freenet is currently a huge hack and it will get more 
worse. so i expect the whole featureitis (a feature disease) to bring fred's death 
because fred is currently bloating up really fast.
i fear only a mayor rewrite with judging the usefullness of every thing that wents in 
will clean this mess up (until the next exisode of "all you can stuff into it")
unfortunately that will for sure break compatibility to the current network and 
protocol-layers, loosing every bit of content that went into the freenet so far....

learn and experiment with the current codebase, invent new features, rate them and add 
them to the "useful things"-list for freenet-II if they're worth it

*sigh*






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