Hi all,
I have forked the Windows Freenet installer into two versions:
* Freenet Standard
* Freenet Lite
'Freenet Lite' is much the same as past windows installers, except that it no
longer search for or accepts windows java interpreters. Thus, it will eliminate
a whole class of end user installation problems.
'Freenet Standard' is completely new. It comes with a full working Sun Java
Runtime Environment built in.
On installation, the whole concept of Java is hidden from the user - no need to
search for or select a JRE - it's done transparently in the background.
Freenet Standard makes Freenet mindlessly easy and idiot-proof to set up.
I feel it will be popular with the windows user community.
I even got the file size to less than 6 MB.
Sun's requirements for Java Runtime redistribution are complied with in full.
I invite people to test these installers, so I've put them up on my own server.
http://nullmorte.cjb.net/Freenet-Std-Setup0.3.8.1.exe and
http://nullmorte.cjb.net/Freenet-Lite-Setup0.3.8.1.exe
BTW - both installers tested successfully on Win98 and Win2k.
Note: both these versions contain the 'official' Freenet.jar version 0.3.8.1
Also, I have uploaded these via CVS to Contrib/wininstall. Filnames are:
* Freenet-Std-Setup0.3.8.1.exe
* Freenet-Lite-Setup0.3.8.1.exe
along with this, I've split the old 'freenet.nsi' install gen script into two:
'freenet-std.nsi' and 'freenet-lite.nsi'.
Also, I've uploaded the modified findjava sources.
I can't go any further with the full release because I lack SF release
developer access.
So one of you admins will have to update the downloads dir and the download web
page accordingly.
Cheers
David
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