Near-candidate for Mac OS X package

Ralf-Philipp Weinmann ralf at fimaluka.org
Fri Jan 21 11:21:19 UTC 2005


On Jan 4, 2005, at 6:52 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote:

> There's a new version at the addresses above.  The main changes are:
>  - It puts things in /Library/Tor, not /usr/local/ .
>  - It doesn't force a click-through of the Tor license, since neither
>    Tor's license (nor Privoxy's) imposes restrictions on end-users; 
> only
>    on distributors.
>
> If you have been running a server using the old packages, and keeping
> tor data in /usr/local/var/lib/tor, you should move that directory to
> /Library/Tor/var/lib/tor .
>
> If there are no major bugs in this version, I will use this setup for
> the official binaries for 0.0.9.2, including any improved
> documentation people send me.

Hi Nick,

is there any reason why the installer prompts me to reboot my box after 
the installation? Is this really necessary. In my opinion this is very 
bad practice for a Mac installer and should be avoided at all costs 
lest it is *ABSOLUTELY* necessary.

Cheers,
Ralf



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