Evan Daniel skrev:
> Having not written much actual Freenet code before, I'm learning a lot
> about how Freenet works in the process -- which is harder than it has
> any reason to be.  Why?  NOTHING IS DOCUMENTED. 

[snip]

> If this were an isolated incident, it wouldn't matter much.  It isn't.
> It is the norm for Freenet.  For a platform whose primary impediment
> to wider adoption (IMO, of course) is a lack of things to do with it,
> rather than a lack of underlying functionality, this is a problem.  I
> haven't tracked it, but I wouldn't be surprised if I've spent nearly
> as much time trying to figure out how the plugin API works (or even
> which classes it consists of) as I have actually writing code.

[snip]

> At this point, I think I have a much better understanding of why
> Freenet has so little software that makes use of it, despite the fact
> that Freenet itself seems to work fairly well.

I completely agree. I've been pulling my hair over similar issues before 
as well. The closest thing to documentation was for me the Wiki and/or 
simply askin toad about what I needed to know.

I guess the fact that the Freenet core is ever-changing has a lot to do 
with it.

- Zero3
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