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Originally Posted by scotty1024
Design256 stepped forward with his port of gnuchess and I've turned it into a guinea pig for my best take on a "standalone application with zero installation".
But it still depends upon installing his [SHELL] hack to make it easy to start the chess program.
Of course you could also just run the run.sh directly via the Arivero exploit... but that gets unwieldy for more than a couple applications.
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I think we have to bite the bullet that there are going to be two routes - supported and unsupported. Supported will mean no root access, and no execution of executables except in a highly controlled enviroment.
Unsupported will be for those who are prepared to install and run software ported and written by people here. And judging by my poll from a few weeks ago, that's quite a few people.
So perhaps we should appeal to IRex to give us a supported-unsupported
method of installation. Supported in that it will always be there for us (like SHELL in er_registry), and unsupported in that in order to activate it, you have to agree that you won't go to IRex with questions.
This will become much more relevant when IRex release their unbrick-bios sometime soon, and third-party apps suddenly become much less dangerous.