On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:54:18AM +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
> After several months we are still deliberately complicating the 
> installation process for Windows users by having separate Java and 
> non-Java installers.  Our users simply shouldn't have to know what Java 
> is to use Freenet, let alone know whether it is installed on their 
> computer, or what version is installed.
> 
> Can whoever broke this please fix it?

Sure. Several possibilities:
1. Remove the link to the non-java version. Nobody should run freenet
unless they have broadband anyway!
2. Make the non-java version download and run the java version if it is
necessary, and remove the java version.
3. There is an officially sanctioned way to have it download the Sun
JRE... oierw said something about "the JAVA Online Installer", from
Sun's website.

I reiterate my opposition to hosting the JVM as a file without any
Freenet code in it, for well-known reasons - if we host it, google will
link to it, and we will be competing with Sun, and that is against both
their license and their words when they talked to you. However having it
download the sun installer from their site seems reasonable enough.

Either way, we need somebody to do the work on the wininstaller.
> 
> Ian.

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