On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Thomas Sachau <tommy at gentoo.org> wrote:
> One reason to not use pre-compiled stuff is, that you can patch or > adjust the code before you compile it. In addition, only those patches > have a chance to go upstream, probably noone will accept a patch against > the generated javascript code. > How likely is that in practice? In the entire history of Freenet has any third party felt the need to patch it? This seems like an extreme edge-case to me, and that it shouldn't dictate key architectural decisions. > Since it is Gentoo policy to give the user this choice and ability, > shipping the precompiled code is not really an option. > Then perhaps the real problem here is Gentoo's policy? In any case, I don't think Gentoo's policy should tie our hands one way or another - our policy is that we need a decent user interface :-) Ian. -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120307/8e04a1f7/attachment.html>
