[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Savannah-hackers] submission of The PLife Project - savannah.nongnu.org
From: |
cheeb2002 |
Subject: |
[Savannah-hackers] submission of The PLife Project - savannah.nongnu.org |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:06:58 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 |
A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
James Mitchell Jensen II <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: mbsd
Other License:
Package: The PLife Project
System name: plife
Type: non-GNU
Description:
This aim of this project is to define, improve, and build programs and
libraries to implement a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocal that does not rely
on continuous connections to dedicated hosts to work. Rather, every peer holds
a cache of known peers, which it will send to other peers who request such a
cache. Peers in this cache are to be marked with the time they were last
contacted, so that they can be purged at appropriate intervals. To search for a
file, a search request is sent to peers in the searching peer's cache. These
peers return a list of files in their shared directories that contain the terms
being searched for.
The advantages of this approach are simplicity and a truer freedom from the
traditional server-client architecture; while there will certainly be dedicated
"servers" that serve as gateways to the network, they need be nothing less than
true peers on the network. A publisher could set up a "server" for use as a
distribution server for samples of their products.
Some early, rough work has been done and is contained in a tarball at
http://home.earthlink.net/~cheeb2002/plife.tar.bz2
Other Software Required:
Python
GTK
pyGTK
wxPython
Tkinter
Other Comments:
_______________________________________________
Message sent via/by Savannah
http://savannah.nongnu.org/
[Prev in Thread] |
Current Thread |
[Next in Thread] |
- [Savannah-hackers] submission of The PLife Project - savannah.nongnu.org,
cheeb2002 <=