On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Thomas Sachau <mail at tommyserver.de> wrote:
> If i remember it right, there was a goal to get packagers for freenet for > different distros. If you > really want to force GWT as a dependency without a way to compile it from > source, you will make it much harder to even find people, who will try to do > the needed work. > I can tell you that even the current set of dependencies is not easy to > package, but GWT is a big, complete mess, all other freenet dependencies are > a no-brainer against it. > People still use Gentoo? ;-P Seriously, I never understood the point of building everything from source - Gentoo is pointless masochism IMHO, which probably explains its steady decline in popularity, I hardly ever see it any more. GWT's output is itself source code, so for Gentoo presumably we can just include that, rather than having to generate the JavaScript source from the original. > Uh, i thought, freenet was about a way to securely and anonymously send and > get data. If your target on those people, who want that, then you should > also remember that there have been enough issues with javascripts (exploits > and other nasty things on normal websites), so many users at least > use something like NoScript, which blocks javascript by default. > You can create exception rules with NoScript - right? > I did not even speak about those people, who run freenet on a server and > use some text-based browser without javascript to access the WI. > Anyway, Pupok has proposed that she could also use Dojo, although she isn't as familiar with it as GWT, and it should be able to degrade gracefully. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: ian at sensearray.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100213/7242a8ea/attachment.html>
