On Monday 12 January 2009 23:38, Zero3 wrote: > Hi everyone > > I've been working on a new native Windows installer for Freenet for some > time now. It's actually almost done! A quick round-up of the features: > > - Simple customized offline "1-click installer" > - Prechecks for required admin privileges (including Vista UAC > escalation), Windows version, Java version (helps the user > installing/upgrading his Java via the bundled online installer, see > screenshot below) and old installations > - Support for multiple concurrent installations > - Port availability check and automatic selection (hard-coded limit of > 256 checks because of the time requirements) for both fproxy and fcp ports > - Semi-intelligent installation folder selector (checks path for > existing installation, the "Freenet" keyword (if not found, appends > "\Freenet" to avoid installing in root of drive or "Program files" > folder), too long for file system to handle, not enough free space (with > reserve for other software and Windows itself) and write-access. Install > path status is updated live (see screenshot below). > - Checkboxes for "Install start menu shortcuts", "Install desktop > shortcut" and "Browse Freenet after installation" > - Reduced installer file size (9.5 -> 7.5 MB) and number of files installed > - New browse/start/stop bins will be included as well (mostly to fix > Vista issues and support concurrent installs) > > On my to-do before a release is: > - i18n support > - Command line support > - Support for recognizing more browsers in the launcher (need a list of > which we support, btw.) > - Maybe an "advanced" GUI allowing user to pick fproxy and fcp ports > - Maybe support for reinstallation (while keeping identity and settings) > > Screenshots: > http://privat.zero3.dk/FreenetInstaller_MainGUI.png
The disk space limits are probably a bit low. IIRC the minimum datastore size is 256MB... "a little amount" should be a "a small amount" > http://privat.zero3.dk/FreenetInstaller_JavaMissing.png "Freenet requires the Java Runtime Environment..." not "Freenet requires Java Runtime Environment..." > > However, there are some remaining policy questions to be answered before > I can send out a working alpha. So here we go: > > 1) Is it worth the time to include checks for existing 0.5 installations > in order to not collide with them? Dunno. If it's easy. > 2) Is there anything in the folder structure that ought to be moved > around? E.g. atm. we have browse.cmd in the install root, but start.cmd > and stop.cmd in the bin folder. My installer also creates a new > installid.dat file containing a string needed to identify the node among > concurrent installations. Is there some kind of guideline about where > files should be placed? IMHO the above is fine. > 3) If FireFox (or whatever "safe" browsers we support) is not found, and > the launcher falls back to using Internet Explorer, should it warn/nag > the user about the problem with using IE, and suggest installing another > browser? No, we already do that in the node itself. > 4) Would it be a good idea (read: worth the time) to make the installer > log its progress to a logfile in the system's temporary folder for > debugging/troubleshooting reasons? Probably. > 5) Is the .fref file association a good idea at all? It's a bit messy, > and very hard to manage in environments with multiple installations or > nodes on another machine than the client. It seems like we are moving > towards friend codes/tokens in the future too, so is it really worth > keeping? Isn't the upload/paste reference features in fproxy good enough > for now? IMHO it is worthwhile ... why is it a problem? What happens when you click on one? It ought to be confirmed ... I don't think it is at the moment?? > 6) update.cmd was *not* created with concurrent installations in mind > (read: it won't work), and certainly won't be compatible with the > current installer and mine at the same time. The best solution would > probably be to branch update.cmd for my installer. Juiceman, how are you > feeling about it (being the current maintainer)? > > Constructive feedback/questions/suggestions/etc. welcome :) > > - Zero3
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