5 Dolda Connect is a peer-to-peer file sharing program, designed around
6 the Direct Connect protocol. It is written in a fashion that is
7 intended for flexibility and easy extension. It currently only
8 supports the normal Direct Connect protocol, but support is also
9 planned for the ADC protocol, and it can most likely be made to
10 support a great deal of other file sharing protocols as well.
14 Dolda Connect is built around a client-server model, in the way that
15 there is a server (daemon) program carrying out all the actual
16 file-sharing work, and a number of client programs that connect to the
17 server in order to command it and display its status. The interaction
18 between the client and server is carried out using a well-defined
19 protocol, making it fairly easy to write new clients for specialized
22 To make it easier to write new clients, a C library has been written
23 to make common functions easier, such as connecting, authenticating,
24 sending requests and parsing the responses. The C library also has a
25 wrapper module for GNU Guile, so that clients can be written in
26 Scheme. As of 0.3, there is also a Python module available seperately.
28 None of these are documented (yet), but there are a number of examples
29 scattered around the source tree, so it should not be awfully hard to
30 figure out how to do simple things. If in doubt, just contact the
35 So far, the following clients are distributet along with the source
38 * A Gtk2 based GUI, which loosely resembles a normal Direct Connect
40 * A GNOME panel applet for showing the status of current downloads in
42 * A Gaim chat plugin for chatting in hubs and writing private
44 * A command-line automatic downloader written in Scheme.
45 * A chat logger written in Scheme.
46 * A hub manager written in Scheme.
48 The GNOME applet and Gaim plugin are somewhat experimental. The applet
49 seems to be working well, but the installation have some quirks (since
50 GNOME does not normally look in /usr/local, care must be taken with
51 the installation prefix). The Gaim plugin has some performance issues
52 and seems to be leaking some memory. The performance problems lie in
53 Gaim itself, however, and the Gaim developers have indicated that they
54 will be fixed in Gaim 2.0.0.
62 Documentation is still spotty at best. For any information not found
63 in the README or INSTALL files (or the source code, if you are a
64 programmer), contact the author.
68 Dolda Connect is primarily written by Fredrik Tolf. He can be reached
69 through the e-mail address <fredrik@dolda2000.com>. His homepage is
70 <http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/>.
74 This documented was last updated 2006-11-22, reflecting release 0.3 of