xnap3 plugins

[Steffen P. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi,

xnap3 has been improved greatly in the last 10 days. It is still not possible 
to pin down a release date, but the development is progressing as planed. We 
already have more working plugins than we ever had for any released version 
;). 

Tammo van Lessen has done a great job porting the giFT plugin from xnap2 and 
added missing features. At this point the giFT plugin is the most complete 
network plugin.

I have ported most of the OpenNap code. Transfers and sharing do not yet work 
though. I hope I can finish that by the end of next week.

The IRC plugin based on PircBot works well. The dcc transfers are not finished 
but that should not be a big deal.

Felix has tweaked the manual to fit into the Java Help framework and added the 
appropriate hooks to the XNap code. I think users will appreciate the online 
help system very much. The request for a manual is probably the most frequent 
feedback we are getting.

The XNap framework is mostly finished and I encourage everybody who wants to 
write a plugin to have a look at the code (and the half finished 
plugin-howto) and to get in touch with me, to avoid duplicate work. 

I'd also be interested in the limewire plugin. Joker Tenk, do you have any 
code you could share with us, or better could you port it to xnap3? Once I am 
done with the OpenNap plugin I will have a look at the OAV and JMF plugins 
you send a while ago and port them to xnap3.

That's it for now. I hope I will have another snapshot of xnap3 ready by the 
end of the week to make it easier for people without cvs/java knowledge to 
follow the development.

Steffen

-- 
Steffen Pingel - ste...@gm... - http://members.tripod.de/SteffenPingel/