* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-12-12 00:06:31]:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:46, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > * Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> [2008-12-11 19:18:30]: > > > > > > Disadvantages: > > > > - Have to do some work on emu. > > > > That alone is a good reason why *not* to do it. I don't see why > > installers should be auto-built nor built from emu for that matter. > > I believe I and Zero3 have given several reasons: > Right, but none of them is valid or worth considering whereas the caveats are real. Not to mention that here we are talking about doing additional work changing the *current behaviour* which has proven to be working. > > > 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. We do have a solution for those users: we already have an offline installer. Here you and he are suggesting to make what is currently a special-case the default installer on the basis that some users might gain some security out of it. It's insane. > > > - Performance: The actual installation should take less time to complete. Why? You can get a slow mirror and download slowly your bigBundle from it... or get all the packs you need from different (possibly using parallel sessions - we don't do that atm) equally slow mirrors. > > > - Simplicity: It would reduce the number of stages in the install, > especially > > > for non-IzPack installers. > > > Lucky us, we currently have only one installer. > > + removal of the website as a Single Point of Failure. > Again, we already have an offline installer. I'm not against improvements: I'm against unnecessary, unjustified and probably dodgy changes. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081212/0d2d2b5f/attachment.pgp>
