On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:22:36PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > Hmmm, Gnutella doesn't have URIs AFAIK? > It should anyways.
How can you have a "Universal Resource Indicator" when you can't locate resources globally? > > Certainly separate layers, I have no problem with that - but I see > > little point in making them separate applications. > What is a separate application? That is a distribution issue. What is > important is that they are separate problems. Ok, I guess it is down to whether they share code, whether they run in the same runtime environment, and whether they are ever distributed separately. > > > Either way, I have been > > > thinking for a while that we should at least experiment about this by > > > making it a seperate application for Napster/Gnutella type filesharing. > > Can you define what you mean by this? > An application that works like Napster. So a URI is actually a URL, and it just lets you find URLs? Not sure that there would be much point... > > I see no reason to think that simulations are pointless, but I do agree > > that we need to implement. It is about time I did some coding again, so > > I plan to get started on this over the next few days. I have an > > architecture in-mind, which will be suitable for whatever we decide to > > do with it. > > I feel a little bit of "feature creep" over that. IMHO We don't have > searching with binary key closeness down well enough to go running off on > tangents like this quite yet. If you do want to code it, I hope that you > take my advice and keep it separate from the main code for now (obviously > sharing classes is good). Hey, "feature creep" are our middle names ;) It has been the intention to implement searching for years (wow - I can say things like "for years" in regard to Freenet development, that is scary), this isn't just me suddently coming up with a new idea. I have every intention of keeping it separate, although I definitely still think that it belongs as part of Freenet (we could do a poll - "Should freenet have fuzzy searching?" but that probably wouldn't be fair). Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010603/64705ff1/attachment.pgp>
