On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> wrote:
> That covers mine, toads and nextgens opinions. What do everyone else think?

Here are my thoughts:

Bundling
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I don't have a problem with bundling per-se provided we are judicious
about what gets bundled.  In issues like this I think its instructive
to look at what other installers do and I think its pretty clear that
bundling dependencies is the norm, not the exception.

That being said, I don't have a big problem with downloading
dependencies on-demand either.  I don't think there is a big
difference in the user experience in either case.

So I could live with either solution.

Building the installer automatically on emu
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The idea that a compromised Emu could lead to the compromising of tens
of thousands of Freenet users is very scary indeed.  That being said,
this is a risk with any software that is downloaded from a web server
anywhere.  Its more a bug in the lax security models of today's
operating systems, than in anything we are doing in particular.

Again, I think we should look to the norm for other software, and the
norm is that automatic building of in-development software is pretty
common (Firefox, etc).

Ian.

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