On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Thomas Sachau <[email protected]> wrote:

> One reason to not use pre-compiled stuff is, that you can patch or
> adjust the code before you compile it. In addition, only those patches
> have a chance to go upstream, probably noone will accept a patch against
> the generated javascript code.
>

How likely is that in practice?  In the entire history of Freenet has any
third party felt the need to patch it?  This seems like an extreme
edge-case to me, and that it shouldn't dictate key architectural decisions.


> Since it is Gentoo policy to give the user this choice and ability,
> shipping the precompiled code is not really an option.
>

Then perhaps the real problem here is Gentoo's policy?  In any case, I
don't think Gentoo's policy should tie our hands one way or another - our
policy is that we need a decent user interface :-)

Ian.

-- 
Ian Clarke
Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/
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