Okay, so this is more in the area of FreeMule? Certainly yet another queue manager isn't that interesting, because they don't have to do that much work in 0.7.
I think it's interesting... One possible problem is it's quite close to traditional filesharing. On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:59:55AM +0200, Jerome Flesch wrote: > Greetings, > > Please find below the Summer of Code project proposal I've submit to Google: > > > Project proposal > ---------------- > > The main goal of this project would be the creation of a tool giving to > Freenet users the possibility to easily upload and download files on the > network. > > > 1) Tools already existing > > At the moment, there are 3 main tools allowing users to do a such task: > > - Fuqid : The major drawback of this tool is that he works only under > Microsoft Windows. Some users use it under GNU/Linux thanks to Wine, but > that's not a real solution. > > - Frost : Frost is a kind of Newsreader for Freenet, but, as Usenet > newsreaders, he allows also to share files. The point is that it's not his > main goal and some users on #freenet-fr reported me problems when trying to > upload large files with him. > > - Fuqt : A Qt-based Fuqid clone. Latest version doesn't compile with gcc 4, > and pre-built binary doesn't seem to work on all systems (by example amd64). > > > > 2) My proposition > > Instead of making just a Fuqid / Fuqt clone, we can imagine a more useful > program: The idea would be to enable users to quickly and easily index their > files. One possibility would be to create an kind of indexes specific to this > new program. One other would be to use already existing indexes as, for > example, Frost boards. > > > 3) Technical aspect > > Fuqid and Fuqt have both an portability problem. To avoid this, the best > solution would be to use Java and Swing. Communication between program and > node would be made by FCP (maybe reusing of jSite classes ?). To access and > manage indexes, as suggested by David Roden [1], an plugins system would be a > solution (one plugin by kind of indexes). > > > 4) Specific constraints > > This program will have to take care about the fact that a lot of people will > run it on a different machine than the one being the node. It implies two > things : Allow, by a configuration file, to use an different node than > 127.0.0.1 but also to be careful about some network slowness that may happen > (In my case, currently, the node is even on a different Internet connection > than my personal computer). > > > 5) Indexes mechanism specific to this program > > After discussion with Florent Daigni?re, it appears that the best solution to > avoid excessively heavy indexes is to sort them by categories. We can sort > them by an hierarchical way : Each index will index files but also child > indexes. > > > > Brief biography > --------------- > > I'm 20 years old french. I'm currently studying software engineering at the > UTBM, Universit? de Technologique de Belfort-Montb?liard (French University). > I've already obtained a two-years technical degree (DUT) in > Telecommunications and Networking. > > During my DUT final training period which was at IrES (Subatomic Research > Institute of Strasbourg, France), I had to work with various Java > technologies, like Struts, OJB, Tomcat, etc. > > Thanks to some university projects, I have already a good knowledge of Swing > graphical interfaces [2]. > > Until now, my only participations to the Open Source movement was to write > some articles about GrSecurity patch and Prelude Intrusion Detector. It's > why, with the Google Summer of Code, I've seen a good opportunity to > integrate an Open Source project as Freenet. > > Until 1st July, I will have different exams and projects to return, so my > availability may vary, but I will try to do my best to keep time for this > project. After 1st July, I will be able to dedicate my whole time to this > project. > > > Best regards, > > -- > Jerome Flesch. > > -- > [1] > http://archives.freenetproject.org/message/20060504.164033.3c90cb65.en.html > > [2] http://jflesch.kwain.net/articles/90.php : One of my Java university > project : A train / bus / subway / tramway network simulator. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060508/0f1be59e/attachment.pgp>
