giFT-java / News: Recent posts

Well, its been about 6 months now since giFT went down the tube and openFT started development. It's been pretty slow and as I said previously, I haven't been continuing development of giFT-java in this time. The file released (which is still getting a trickle of downloads) is really there at the moment for historic purposes only.

giFT is starting to look a bit stabler now, although they haven't released any files officially yet. I will give it a proper look over in a few weeks when i have exams out of the way and probably recode giFT-java to be compatible.... read more

It appears that if you run the giFT deamon with the nodesfile stored on sf (ie you delete your cached nodes file and the deamon downloads it), you can still connect to a handful of supernodes. I assume that these must belong to people who haven't yet upgraded their clients.

This "mini network" only has about 1.1k users on it (atm i'm seeing 332gb files total), but you can find somethings on it unless your taste in music is as bizarre as mine! :-)... read more

It appears that FastTrack modified the protocol used by the network yesterday, which means that giFT no longer works. The giFt developers have begun work at analysing the new protocol.

Becuase giFT-java is a frontend to the deamon, it should work without modifications with the next version of giFT, so it isn't broken.

For more info about this, see:

http://www.giftproject.org/press_9_29_01.html

Greetings,

I have setup this project seperate to the giFT project, as due to an explosion in interest and people writting frontends everything was getting rather chaotic and hard to organise.

By hosting "all that is java do to with giFT" seperately, hopefully things can be coordinated slightly better and we can get some productive work done!

Steven Tee