[Mldonkey-users] Re: Open to paches for a more complete overnet support ?

[Sven Hartge]

Norbert LATAILLE <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am looking at the overnet protocol since a few days, and I am working
> on patches for :
> a/ an improved peer discovery
> b/ correct upload support
> c/ mldonkey integration as an overnet peer (accepting publish opcodes
> and peer searches)

While you are at it, could you please fix the search? Now you can only
search for one word, our you will be swamped with totally unwanted
results. For example:

Search for "under arrest". This should normalles only return files,
which have both words in the filename, but now you get files with
"under" and files with "arrest" in their name, which obviously is not
what one searching wanted.

This seems to be an Overnet limitation, so mldonkey has to post-filter
the list for the correct results.

> - why has overnet support stopped in mldonkey ? Is there a political
> reason behind this (apart from the lack of answers) ?

I think it was a) lack of time, b) lack of documentation of the
protocol.

> What could be the overnet-community reaction to a "more complete"
> overnet support in mldonkey (which means more or less creating a
> bridge between the two networks) ?

If I were an Overnet user, I would really appreciate this, because this
way, more sources become available.

> - I think that it would be wise to release such patches only when they
> are protocol-correct and tuned. It could avoid being "banned" for having
> disturbed the overnet protocol.

Good point.

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