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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