On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:35:42PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:17, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > * Migrate to a more powerful template engine such as FreeMarker 
> > (http://freemarker.sf.net/).
> > 
> > I have been using FreeMarker on another project and it is indeed very 
> > powerful, but it would add almost 2MB to Freenet's size.
> 
> Could freemarker be gutted down to the bare essentials? 

Probably not without destroying the very flexibility that makes it so 
attractive.

> Another idea - not new - for the Windows releases, include one with a
> JVM built in as the *default*, with the option to download a JVM-free
> version for people who already have an adequate JVM installed and
> running. Sun allows free redistribution of the JVM as long as a minimal
> fileset is preserved. Lots of apps do this.

This is what we did before someone decided that we were violating
Sun's license agreement by doing this and hastily switched us to the
current mechanism.  I contacted Sun and they (eventually) agreed that
what we were doing originally was fine.  I am still waiting for this
damage to our installation process to be undone.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke                                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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