Re: [GNUnet-developers] End-user wishlist

[Igor Wronsky]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Christian Grothoff wrote:

> > This has been a quiet mailing list recently... maybe that has something to
> > do with the fact that my GNUnet node is up and running stably for several
> > days, doing what it's supposed to do, so there's nothing to complain about?
> > Kudos to the bug-fixers. GNUnet's shaping up nicely.
> Well, thank you :-).

I agree to the nice behaviour bit. It hasn't crashed, it hasn't
deadlocked - and on the surface it seems to do what it should - for
some time now on my machine. I even tried to dl a couple of big files
lately and they came through ok.

> I'm currently working on implementing directories, so coding
> is still progressing.

Golly! ;)

> > * A URL scheme for shared files, so they can be linked to from within
> > hypertext documents
> How about "gnunet://HASH1INHEX/HASH2INHEX/CRCINHEX/SIZE"? If someone writes a
> little wrapper for parsing/generating this type of URL, I'll put it in
> util/hashing.c to make it "official". Or are there any objections/problems
> with the above format?

No. Another option would be to do as BitTorrent does, i.e. have a
http link to point to a file with extension .gnunet, which would then be
associated with gnunet-download like utility in the browser mime
configuration. The file would then contain the actual hashes and checksums
parsed and used by the dl tool. Any problems with that? I think this one
would enable click-and-download from browser withour much hassle. I
don't know how/if new protocol like 'gnunet://' could be added to any
arbitrary browser easily.

> > * How's the namespace proposal coming?

Personally I'm just waiting for someone starting to work on it. ;) I
have some summer holiday in the next month and I even might dedicate a
day or two for gnunet coding -- but I'm more of a planning/small fixes
guy. Big overhauls are usually too much for me.


Igor