IMHO we should ship a full bundle-installer by default, i.e. one including the
latest main jar, the latest extra jar, the latest plugins.
ADVANTAGES:
- Security: Once you have obtained the installer, somehow (over Tor, from a
friend, etc etc), you can run it without needing to fetch it from the
website. People in hostile environments won't accidentally fetch the wrong
version of the installer over Tor and then run it and reveal themselves. And
us having less idea how many people are running it is arguably an advantage.
- Performance: The actual installation should take less time to complete.
- Simplicity: It would reduce the number of stages in the install, especially
for non-IzPack installers.
DISADVANTAGES:
- People will sometimes download an installer and then run it months later.
Resulting in an old version being installed. This should update itself, but
only after configuration, and will slow down the process of getting started
with Freenet significantly for a new user.
- Websites (or even magazines with physical DVDs) may mirror old versions of
the installer. Again resulting in an old version being installed.
- Statistics: We would not get the reasonably reliable statistics on how many
people install Freenet that we do now.
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