giFT-Zombie / News: Recent posts

I wanted to post a p2p-proposal in hopes that we might refine a paper which would contain the specifications for a open p2p protocol.

http://dgroups.sourceforge.net/P2P-PROPOSAL.txt

let me know what you think.

As many of you probably already know the giFT daemon which giFT-Zombie is built upon is broken. The people at FastTrack have introduced incompatablities in the protocol, which disallows opensource clients to participate in the FastTrack network. I will post a new version of giFT-Zombie with a few bug fixes when a fix has been worked out in giFT. Until giFT is back development of giFT-Zombie is parellized. I am sorry i wish i had better news.... read more

We changed our name to giFT-Zombie to avoid possible trademark issues with kazaa. More importantly we released a much improved client giFT-Zombie-0.2.0
Feature include:
- Added a nice new search results table widget

- reworked the search results data structure for multi-source downloading

- added support for multi-source downloading

keep a look out for a win32 port coming out and additional features coming soon.

Totally reworked the networking code. We no longer use CommonC++, because of stability issues along with people having problems building it on their systems. Stability has improved a great deal. Downloading is much more reliable. Better search results with make-shift column support. Added a max search results field.

We now use the giFT-0.9.5 library and have made many improvements to the user interface. We have fixed some bugs, Searching is close to stable and downloading isn't very reliable yet. We plan on implementing a different download mechanism in the near future that will stablize things and allow parallel downloads for the same file.

well actually it was released a day or two ago, but I thought i'd let you know that v0.0.2 is out.

halo-kazaa is now talking to the giFT daemon through portable c++ libraries. What does that mean? well, we should have a working version for linux and windows at about the same time. expect a binary in around 2 days.

I am now working on a linux/windows kazaa client which will be here very soon(1-2 days). check back soon.

Due to the amount of work i'm having to do for school, I have not been able to meet the release date. I will keep pushing forward. Thanks for your patience.

right now i'm shooting for a beta release date of march 1st