On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected]
> wrote:

>  > > But most importantly, we need it to be reasonably easy to *develop
> Freenet
> > > anonymously*. This is not a theoretical aspiration. There are anonymous
> > > developers today, and some of them are extremely productive at times.
> >
> > They can use a Tor proxy.
>
> IMHO we should not force that on them. Tor has a different threat model,
> and is much easier to block. Whereas developing over Freenet, without using
> Tor at all, is quite possible right now, or would be if we maintained an
> official on-freenet git/hg repo (using tools that already exist). To be
> fair, existing anonymous devs do pull from the main repo via Tor, but IMHO
> we should not require them to do so.
>

Now that I think about it, it may be possible to host a Maven repository in
Freenet…  AFAIK it's just straight-up HTTP GETs.


>  > I'm trying to bring us into 2013, Maven is virtually a standard Java
> tool
> > these days.  freenet-ext.jar has to be built, has to be kept up-to-date.
> > It's basically an ugly home-grown dependency management solution.
> >  Originally there were no alternatives, but now there are, and there are
> > easy solutions to the problems that you've outlined with it.
>
> No, Maven does not help with freenet-ext.jar at all. The end-user does not
> use Maven.
>

Using Maven's assembly plugin - it's trivially easy to compile your code,
together with all dependencies, into a single .jar.

Ian.

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