Hi all, I've been away from freenet for some time, largely due to the frustration caused by Freenet's pathological unreliability in the 0.4,0.5 era as I was trying to get Freemail to work reliably.
In the last couple of weeks, I've been dabbling with 0.7, and have been in the process of implementing pyfcp (a python library for clients to access freenet via FCP), and development has taken a couple of orders of magnitude less time and effort (and pain) compared to its counterpart on 0.4-0.6. I want to say that with the new architecture of 0.7, I feel my energies and enthusiasm have regenerated (after feeling burned out and disillusioned with 0.4-0.6). So congratulations, lots of bouquets, and lots of fine wine/malt whisky/sticky buds/funny mushrooms/etc to the architects and developers. In particular, some of the features I'm really enjoying are: - transparent splitfiles handling within the node - no more of this dragging the client through the entrails of this complicated process - FCP's 'ClientPutComplexDir', making freesite insertion an absolute breeze - the USK keytype, and its transparent management within the node. This rocks so goddam hard - no more tedious freesite insertion schedules, no more annoying metadata construction, no more sites dropping off if the author misses an insertion deadline - Metadata.ContentType - marvelously simple and to the point. In 99.95% of cases, no more metadata than this is needed - fproxy's improvements, and ability to manage lots of stuff via the web interface Guys, you've won me back as a client writer, and I'm sure you'll win back a lot more people as word of 0.7's atonements gets out. Cheers David (aum) _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
