On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:09:20AM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> And, if Freenet now works with windoze jview.exe, then this whole 'with
> java' freenet can fly to the bit-bucket - good riddance!

Define "works". As of last time we dealt with it, Freenet did run with
jview and you could request and insert stuff, but because the socket
timeout system was badly broken the node was functioning severely below
par.

> And, if the Freenet with jview.exe problem is sorted, then why the hell
> bother with finding other versions of java? Maybe stick another option "Use
> windows java interpreter" at the front of the install, so most users won't
> be bothered with a java search at all.
> That way, the install can be truly fast, simple and foolproof, which is what
> I aimed for with the 'with java Freenet' anyway.

Which is what we tried in the first place, but then we found ourselves
with a network that was grinding to a standstill because of a multitude of
undocumented total fuck ups within that JVM. 

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