On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 06:59:00AM +1100, fish wrote: > > Currently the publishing link on the Freenet website suggests FreeWeb > > for Windows users, and FCPTools for others. > > > > Are these really the best options at this minute for Freesite > > publishing? > > Freeweb is probably a no brainer - it is, right now, the only publishing > tool that I know of with a GUI.
Perhaps, but it seems to be somewhat stale - I don't think anyone has worked on it in months. > I havn't used FCPTools for a long time, but they are still probably the > simplest way to insert a site. But people tell me that this is still > true. I hear occasional stories that FCPTools drift in and out of stability. > It's really a tough problem, because right now there is nothing which is > both new user friendly and hardcore freesite operator friendly. I havn't > had time to finish my GUI for my stuff yet (I wrote one implentation, > actully, but it completly sucked ass, so I threw it out and started again, > heh), so I'm not the saviour for now. We should definitely make this a high priority, particularly if Freeweb isn't working so well these days. > (side note: the original crappy gui was written using wxPython, which is > all good. But, like I said, not powerful enough. Anyhow, I had this > thought, second time around, of writing the GUI in html, and having a > siteserver that handled inserting your site every day and whatever. do > people have thoughts on this?) That would be nice. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021027/b80babae/attachment.pgp>
