> This is getting rediculous - I have described the issue to Sun - along > with the exact way we are deploying the JRE, and we have confirmation > (from someone to whom I was referred by Bill Joy, Sun's co-founder) > that it is ok. She said "I don't think we care about what server the > bits come from as long as to get the JRE from you the user also always > get the freenet software". What more do you want, a blood oath from > Scott McNealy?
Um, no, I want confirmation from Sun that *what we are doing* is ok. As you say, she said "to get the jre... the user also always gets the Freenet software". But this was not the old deployment scheme! The old deployment scheme suggested that the user download the jre from www.freenetproject.org (and also tried downloading it automatically) We *cannot* host the jre independently on www.freenetproject.org. Which is what Sun have explicitly stated, on several occasions. The 'confirmation' you have received does not unconditionally allow us to do that which Sun have previously denied us. > Even in the worst case scenario, this at least gives us sufficient > justification to go back to the old mechanism until Sun comes back to > us and tells us we can't. Sun have already come back to me to tell me we can't do that. Which bit of my argument did you not understand? But as you're willing to take full responsibility, I will change the webinstaller back to the old mechanism when I have a spare moment (or, someone else could do it? whatever happened to that other guy who started winstaller hacking for us a month or so ago?) Anyway, there's now a potential new alternative. Java 1.4.2 (which no longer appears to be 'beta' and seems to work ok with Freenet 5028 as of me trying this weekend) comes with an 'install from the web' option to install only the components needed. Admittedly this contacts Sun's servers to download the jre components. But I'm not sure that this is much worse than directing the user to download manually from Sun's servers. Alternatively the full Java 1.4.2 runtime is an approx 15MB file to include inside freenet-java-webinstall.exe Thoughts? D _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
