IMHO the minimal installer (run default settings + configuration via broswer) seems much more interesting, cross-platform, and it can also be used to run Freenet on a remote machine without X server.
But my major concern is about Kaffe/Classpath compatibility and I guess that a Java GUI would not help. Emanuele Matthew Toseland wrote: > How exactly should we package Freenet 0.7? > > I2P uses launch4j to create executable jars for Windows. On Windows, you > just run them; on Linux, java -jar installer.exe. > > But that still leaves us with the question of the rest of the install > process. I would like to have as little as possible in native code. 0.7 > will have a configuration servlet so that you can do the configuration > on the fly; minimally, we could have the jar install a node with the > default settings and wait for the user to connect via a browser (or even > open one), at which point we ask him/her about disk space and bandwidth > usage. But it might be better to have a nice GUI installer, since this > is what people expect. > > For example: > http://antigen.sourceforge.net/index.html (poor web site; examples > missing) > http://www.izforge.com/izpack/ > > Suggestions? Comments?
