* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2006-02-14 14:03:59]:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:56:13AM -0600, Anthony Ryan wrote: > > How about instead of bundling this is done via the installer? > > > > There would be a 3rd-party tools section, that can be checked/unchecked for > > installation. The users would then have a choice to install frost, pm4pigs, > > etc.. This would eliminate the distinction issue of freenet vs 3rd-party > > freeenet tools. > > It's a good idea but we would still have to control the distribution of > the third-party tools i.e. mirror our own known working copies. Imho that's the major issue ; do we want to maintain our own copies of those 3rdparty apps ? Won't it clash with 3rd-party tool authors ? If everyone is using our installer insteed of browsing to the website of the author, will it be "politicaly" correct ? What about putting links to wiki pages explaining how to setup $(my favourite app name goes here) on the latest screen of the installer? NextGen$ > > I do agree that the installer should give the user the possibility of > turning off particular apps/plugins. As long as this doesn't overly > complicate it. And it could ask the user any config questions needed for > the bundled apps. (Although these should really be minimized...) E.g. if > freemail was a passthrough...
