Re: Distributed Drive and Increased Usage

2008/5/13 Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>:
>  > Being bundled is one of our best hopes for getting Freenet widely
>  > deployed, we need to be encouraging it, not looking for reasons not to
>  > do it.  Freenet is a platform on which we want people to build apps.
>  > The best way to encourage that, given that Freenet isn't already
>  > widely deployed, is to make it easy for those apps to bundle Freenet.
>
>  Okay, how do we make it easy to bundle Freenet?

Streamline the installation process, minimize the amount of user
interaction required - make it easy for an app's installer to provide
whatever startup information Freenet might need.

>  > > , because of  the overhead (in every sense):
>  > >  - Exchanging noderefs.
>  >
>  > Not necessary if they use opennet - the app that bundles Freenet would
>  > be responsible for encouraging the user to behave correctly.
>
>  You think they would? :)

Hopefully, either way, its their responsibility as the "primary" app,
not ours.  Certainly, its no reason for us not to try to make Freenet
easy to bundle.

>  > It would be the responsibility of the app bundling Freenet to explain
>  > these things to the user.
>
>  Sure, but for a lot of apps, this is a blocker. For example, the mainstream
>  version of Thingamablog can't realistically bundle Freenet. We are here
>  talking about apps which are specifically written for Freenet, or plugins to
>  mainstream apps, the plugin being specifically written for Freenet.

Of course, not every app will bundle Freenet, but we need to make it
easy for those that can.

Ian.

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