On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Gianni Johansson wrote:
> It's good to make the distinction because if you manage to get all the data > blocks you don't need to decode at all. bob the angry flower says "wrong,m wrong, wrong ,wrong, where did you learn that??! wrong!!!" :-p. Seriously, this is a very bad thing to be encouraging, for two reasons: a) the checkblocks will fall oiff freenet - you should never be retrieving this data significantly! (i wrote about that in the documentation i wrote, I won't reepat that here) > Client writers just don't want to deal with it. FEC support has been in CVS > for almost a year and you are the first person who has attempted to write a > client besides me. I think that's got more to do with the fact that there was no documentation, and hence it took me a solid week to work everything out to the point where it worked where I tested it (and yes, before anyone asks, I did try just asking GJ first. 4 times (this was back last march. I also asked about the fproxy changes, to the same lack of result). it seems that any email I send to GJ gets redirected to /dev/null :(). And then I *still* got it wrong and didn't know until fproxy was patched, which I found out about when people started bitching about my tools breaking freenet. Hell, I had to write *documentation* to get your attention :-p. Talk about sinking to a new low :-p. > > Should we be perhaps looking for a library which doens't suffer from > these > problems as much as onion's library, however? The glass is > half full man. The math works for files out to about 1G no problem > even with segmentation for the current implementation. > > The OnionNetworks code works well for moderately sized files now! > We should make it easily available. I agree with this... i wasn't trying to suggest otherwise, it was just random musings. I get emails asking me why it's still hard to insert iso's into freenet :-p (hey, did you know that onionnetwork's c library will bluescreen a winxp box when you feed it an iso? :-p) > Segmenting reduces redundancy not striping. (see above) okay, i got the two confused ^_^ - from fish with love. _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl