Policy for Inclusion of Compiled Software

[Patrick]

Updated wiki page to answer a part of this:

Whonix Default Application Policy

@HulaHoop

Is Tor Browser the only exception?

• Tor Browser see Whonix Default Application Policy
• tor see Whonix Default Application Policy

@HulaHoop

What is the policy for including non-packaged programs by default, that are distributed as Appimages or Jar files? Can you please document your policy on this on the wiki?

Added a bit here Whonix Default Application Policy

Installing software other then Tor Browser (as documented above) from non-APT package sources by installed one by default would be nightmare, because:

• Users wouldn’t know how it was installed and not update it.
• Updating would be left to the user.
• It is better if the whole process of download, verification, install, upgrade notification and upgrade is up to the user.

Experiences made with tb-updater and Tor Browser (see above chapter) further discourage this.

Wouldn’t call that a policy though. Rather for reasons of practicality / lowering maintenance effort / lack of developer manpower.

That doesn’t mean development help including Freenet / Cryptocat. That could in long run rather increase maintenance effort. Development help with something that would lower development in long run such as more whonixcheck tests or automated test suite.