Re: signed applets?

[Eric Lavarde <Eric@Lavar.de>]

Hi,

Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
>Le 09/11/2013 18:59, Felix Natter a écrit :
>
>> Freeplane also has applet support (for viewing mindmaps), which is
>now
>> signed upstream (using certum.eu)
>> 
>> => I would also be interested into signing a jar for use with Debian
>> (since I don't have the upstream private key when building the
>package)
>> 
>> If that is not possible, Debian users would need to download the
>signed
>> jar separately for use with the applet export.
>
>An applet is only useful for delivering an application over a network
>to
>a remote user. If the application is used only locally an applet
>doesn't
>make sense, the application could simply be packaged as a desktop
>application.
We're in agreement but I don't get your point: at least for Free{plane, Mind}, the applet is meant to be served through a web-server.

Eric
>
>Emmanuel Bourg

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