Hello,

First of all, I apologize for my lack of communication lately. I've spend most 
of my time working on a school project.

So, here is what I have already done:
- I made index format specifications for the indexes which will be used in the 
upload and download utility (I still have to work on it).
- I made a spider adaptation to try this format.
- I found a name for the upload and download utility: "Thaw" (thanks to Ian 
Clarke :)
- I created a directory in the repository ( /trunk/apps/Thaw/ )
- Nextgens created a separate mailing-list for the commit messages and 
discussion : thaw at freenetproject.org ( 
http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thaw )
- I've started to design the user interface and the plugin mechanism. It will 
probably change a lot in a near future, but you can already have a preview by 
compiling and running what is in the repository ("ant run")

What I still have to do:
- Finish the user interface
- Implement the FCP protocol. I'm wondering if it could be better for me to 
reuse the implementation of freemail or not.
- Implement a basic queue manager
- Make the connections between the user interface and the queue manager
At this point, we should have a good java Fuqid replacement :)

After that, I will have to implement index management:
- Create / insert / update indexes
- View / browse indexes
- As Bback suggested, I will implement [re]insertions on demand.
- As ET suggested, I will try to handle file splitting (though, I still need 
to think about how I will do that)

Currenly, my main problem is that, next week, I will be unavailable because of 
my final exams, and during the weekend, I will be at my parents' without 
any "real" computer, so I will only be able to restart to work after next 
week.

Cheers,

-- 
Jerome Flesch.

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