This is great in many ways, of course any way to make Freenet easier to install almost has to be a good thing.
However, like Matthew I'm also a little concerned about how well this will square with Freenet's rather frantic release cycle - and (relatively) frequent backwards-incompatible changes. Ian. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 18:13:15 Thomas Sachau wrote: >> Hi together, >> >> just a short announcement from me: >> >> Freenet (with all dependencies) and FMS are part of the main tree of Gentoo > Linux, so their users >> can now install freenet using their preferred package manager. >> >> As usual, bug reports should be directed to the maintainer, either via IRC > or via Gentoo Bugzilla, >> so Gentoo related bugs can be sorted out before the reports get forwarded to > the freenet project. > > Can we be certain that this will not result in the same problems we had with > official packaging in Debian? I.e. a fixed version of Freenet frozen and > shipped on hardcopy media for several years, incompatible with the network > for most of that time? > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: [email protected] Ph: +1 512 422 3588 Fax: +1 512 276 6674 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
