Matthew Toseland skrev: > 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. >
+ removal of the website as a Single Point of Failure. > 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. > One thing we could do is to compare packing date to current system date when opening the installer and warn if difference is greater than X days. - Zero3
