server in order to command it and display its status. The interaction
between the client and server is carried out using a well-defined
protocol, making it fairly easy to write new clients for specialized
-tasks.
+tasks. It is worthy of note that the default configuration file
+disables running clients over the network, for convenience of
+setup. See the INSTALL file for details and instructions on how to
+enabled networked clients.
To make it easier to write new clients, a C library has been written
to make common functions easier, such as connecting, authenticating,
sending requests and parsing the responses. The C library also has a
wrapper module for GNU Guile, so that clients can be written in
-Scheme.
+Scheme. As of 0.3, there is also a Python module available seperately.
None of these are documented (yet), but there are a number of examples
scattered around the source tree, so it should not be awfully hard to
Clients
-So far, the following clients are distributet along with the source
+So far, the following clients are distributed along with the source
tree:
* A Gtk2 based GUI, which loosely resembles a normal Direct Connect
* A GNOME panel applet for showing the status of current downloads in
progress.
* A Gaim chat plugin for chatting in hubs and writing private
- messages.
+ messages (only for Gaim 2.0.0 and above).
* A command-line automatic downloader written in Scheme.
* A chat logger written in Scheme.
+ * A hub manager written in Scheme.
The GNOME applet and Gaim plugin are somewhat experimental. The applet
seems to be working well, but the installation have some quirks (since
GNOME does not normally look in /usr/local, care must be taken with
-the installation prefix). The Gaim plugin has some performance issues
-and seems to be leaking some memory. The performance problems lie in
-Gaim itself, however, and the Gaim developers have indicated that they
-will be fixed in Gaim 2.0.0.
+the installation prefix). The Gaim plugin seems to be leaking some
+memory.
Installation
-This documented was last updated 2006-06-24, reflecting release 0.1 of
+This documented was last updated 2007-04-11, reflecting release 0.3 of
Dolda Connect.