On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:36:25PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Arthur Bergman writes:
> > > While we are dreaming about other protocols, I`ve always thought that we
> > > needed POE::Component::Napster. Actually, now that I think about it, I
> > > realise that Napster has died so...
> > >
> > > But the other P2P protocols would be nice to have.
> > >
> > Gnat wanted someone to look at this, maybe has found out anuthing?
>
> I really really want to see Freenet in Perl. I'd pick that over
> Gnutella. I actually started to hack out a Gnutella client last year,
> but ran out of tuits and inclination as I'm mostly uninterested in
> porno AVIs and Metallica MP3s.
>
> Someone who wrote a Freenet server in Perl would make my year. The
> only implementation of Freenet right now is in Java, and my
> experiments showed it to be hideous to configure and run. A version
> that anyone with Perl could run would rock ...
There are certainly several people on this list that could help you with
all the POE specifics and IO stuff. Just do the protocol part and ask for
the POE parts.
Torvald
