Well as far as compatibility goes, Classpath's graphical capabilities have been rising at a very rapid rate recently. But you may be right about minimal installer.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:08:21AM +0200, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > 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? > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20051026/f4b26c4c/attachment.pgp>
