-- CROSS POSTED INTO ESPRA DEV DUE TO QUITE A BIT OF OFF TOPIC INFORMATION. CONTINUE ANY CONVERSATION THERE --
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ivan "cool" Tewell" <[email protected]> > Stefan Reich wrote: > > >> Does anyone have a working key index on Freenet? I think people > >> publishing key indices should attempt to compose their keys into an > >> Espra catalog that may be downloaded from their index site. This would > >> be greatly appreciated by Espra users who do not enjoy weird-o music, > >> found on the default Espra catalog. > > > > > > I'm just establishing a key index (freegle-keys) :-p > > > > But beside that general purpose index, it would of course be nice to have > > special interest key indices, too. > > > > BTW, you seem to know a bit about Espra. How does the system work? Do they > > have a central index server? Can catalogs be posted anonymously? Is it > > complicated to build such catalogs? > > Espra operates above Freenet's HTTP client. Espra uses Catalog files > written in .XML, which are directory-style lists of material and their > URI. In Espra, the user browses the list of material in the GUI. Then, > information about the material appears. The user then has the option of > downloading the content. On how espra talks to freenet, I've written a nice generic freenet accessor which can be used with libfreenet, wr, jni to fred, or a c fcp implementation to access freenet. Now, I've caught some bugs in it and am not personally good enough with gdb so now we are working on getting libfreenet to work in windows via vc++6 (it compiles) so I can use the debugger (which rocks btw) to figure this whole thing out. These past coupla days I've been sidetracked with getting WR to work in windows. Lots of fun there <g/> (Right now stuck in scheduling after everything has started up. yay!) Hmm. Seems to be some interest in espra catalogs. :p Basically, they are VERY stripped down format describing basic information on the songs. This data includes artist/album/song. the albums or songs can be nameless. We assume that names cannot collide because it just doesn't make sense to allow them too :) Now, at the leafs of this tree point to different chks for
