Since GNUnet is currently an academic exercise, it should be removed from main distribution repositories. For example: Anyone thinking to try GNUnet on Debian-based machines would look in Synaptic and install GNUnet v0.10.1. Presumably that build-version worked when it was first included in the repositories, but now GNUnet is at v0.16.0 which is not backward compatible.
The low version number should warn users away, but GNUnet in the repositories is misleading given its low level of development. -----Original Message----- From: Tirifto <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Determining whether gnunet is connected Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:34:19 +0000 On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:28:22 +0000 Fungilife can be eternal <[email protected]> wrote: > Where does it say on the front page, or on the packages thrown out in > Arch's AUR and elsewhere, "alpha project not fully functional"?? > "we know ..." ..."Nobody is claiming otherwise" you may know, > someone in authority of the gnunet site should also tell the world. For what it’s worth, it is very clearly mentioned in the ‘Install’ page on the website, accessible either from the navigation bar’s ‘Documentation’ menu, or by scrolling down the home page and clicking ‘Get started’. I would assume that anyone stumbling upon the GNUnet website and wondering how they can get started wouldn’t miss it, but I may just as well be wrong. More prominent it could be, in any case. The package descriptions could mention it, too, but here I want to note that I don’t recall many packages doing this. From what I’ve seen, most packages only state their goals in their description, without elaborating on their stage of development. The version being ‘zero point something’ should be a clear indicator that this is *not* in any way finished and likely *not* fully functional. But it’s also true that even some very functional software likes to stay on version zero for too long, so perhaps this reasoning can’t be counted on. So I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, just that it’s also not a no-brainer.
