Re: Freenet on OS X. Was: VPN

Steve Dougherty <steve-kVTqj8yhOEv2eFz/[email protected]> Sat, 04 Apr 2015 07:47:58 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.support
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On 03/29/2015 12:32 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> How does one apply for the OS X maintainer spot?  If the duties are
> within my skill set I’ll volunteer.

I think by saying something like "I'd like to be the OS X maintainer."
I'm not sure what duties mrsteveman1 intends to take on, but as far as I
understand has involved going through the bugs filed for OS X, working
on the OS X tray as you saw, and testing/patching the OS X installer.

> FWIW I think it would be useful on the wiki to merely suggest OS X
> users just install the jdk and the jar, instead of suggesting using
> java web start.  Simple and works.

> A dmg would be nice.  We could hook that up.

It would indeed - that would be great! Is that at all related to
Oracle's suggested method of distributing Java apps? [0] Do you know if
bundled JREs are kept up to date?

> I commented on an open ticket for the tray app.  The dev was real
> nice and is looking into it.
> https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=3093

Glad to hear it! :)

> Thanks,
> 
> — Eric Chadbourne http://Nonprofit-CRM.org/

[0]
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/packagingAppsForMac.html

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