[Mldonkey-users] MLDonkey Feature Request

[Alexander Gräf]

Hello mailing list recipients,

I'm currently in the progress of developing a GUI protocol library and GUI 
frontend in managed C#. The GUI will run on Windows with Windows.Forms, the 
protocol library will be system independent, so it could be used to write a GUI 
with Mono, using Gtk# on Linux. Development makes progress, and I think I'm 
beeing able to release a first beta in about 2 weeks.

Screenshots for the pre-alpha can be found here (no source or binaries 
available yet):
http://dev.graef.cc/MLDonkey/Screenshots/

The binaries and sources will be published under an OSI-approved license. 
However, while digging into the code of MLDonkey for finding out about 
GUI-protocol details, I had to found out that MLDonkey hasn't multiuser support 
beyond letting users login with different usernames and password. There isn't 
even an owner tag on the FileInfo messages.

So my feature requests would be:

1) At least provide a string field for each FileInfo message (currently OP-code 
52), which contains the name of the user who added the file to the download 
queue. This would at least provide some means for a GUI to hide foreign files.

2) Extend the available informations about each user.
a) Attach an email address to each user account, to which a message can be sent 
after the file download completed. 
b) Attach a group to each user account, which defines which actions can be 
initiated by each user (downloading, options modifying, server reconning and 
deleting, etc.)
c) Provide the possibility to have a different incoming directories for each 
user, if the file is commited/auto-commited. This could also be accomplished by 
using a placeholder string, like "/usr/<username>/mlincoming", where the file 
is copyied to after commit.

3) Let the core hide all foreign files, but show all for users belonging to a 
admin-group (this would also need features beeing implemented like 
multiple-commiting for multiple users downloading the same file)

I'm aware several of those features were already requested, and I'm also aware 
that those arent easy to implement. However, I'm not able to programm in Ocaml, 
so I'm currently stuck with only beeing able to request the features, but not 
beeing able to help with the development. However, having the option to manage 
multiple users was the initial reason I switched away from using the eMule 
embedded webserver and developing my own GUI.


Another one: I tried to register on
http://mldonkey.berlios.de/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=new_user
but did not yet receive an email. Is it supposed to be delayed? (if it is, it 
would be nice to print this on the form to make people aware of this). I tried 
it with two different email addresses in different domains, but both failed.

Regards, Alexander Gräf