On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:53:14PM -0000, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > Quoth Oskar Sandberg: > > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:34:30PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:21:21AM -0000, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > >> > Sigh. But this is an open-source project. Which means if I want this > >> > done, I should do it myself and submit it. But I really haven't read > >> > through the freenet code, I don't know how the whole thing works in > >> > detail, > >> > and who knows if I'll be able to follow through? Well, I can take a > >> > look, > >> > and maybe someone else out there is interested in helping out? > >> > >> I'll write a Guide to Hacking Fred for a reasonable fee >;'b > > > >But people here shouldn't expect that coding this sort of thing will > >be enough to have it added. We need strong compelling evidence (as well as > >the right gut feeling) before such changes are made. > > Fair enough. But while coding may not be a sufficient condition, it would > seem to be a necessary one. It seems to me that if done right, this plan > can't hurt freenet, even if it isn't proven to help it. But then, I don't > make the call (and there's good reason for that). I may be wrong, that may > not be enough, etc. But anyway, it might get written and not added, but it > certainly can't get added without being written.
My hunch is that this feature will prove extremely difficult to implement in a sane way, and won't really help the network (mostly b/c it will only be useful for big files and will therefore be obviated by client-side splitting). > >And it's called Free software... > > Please. I'm not trying to make a political point, one way or another. Can > we find a politics-neutral term? Actually, what's probably more to the > point is that this is a collaborative project. I think he was just kidding one or the other of us. -- # tavin cole # # "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that # man doesn't have to experience it." # # - Max Frisch _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
