On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:04:18PM +0000, NextGen$ wrote: > * 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 ?
We don't have to maintain them as such. We just have to make sure we have a working copy on the download site, and not upload the next version if we know it breaks the installer. > > 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 ? I dunno, but I suspect they would prefer to have greater coverage through being installed by default with Freenet. > > What about putting links to wiki pages explaining how to setup $(my favourite > app name goes here) on the latest screen of the installer? And how many users do you expect to follow the instructions? We have to make freenet easy to use! > > NextGen$ > > > > 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... -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060214/8379443c/attachment.pgp>
