A little background first…
Barry is a former developer that started working on creating a Kademlia client. His original goal was to create a completely new client based only on Kademlia. Also the idea was to make that client a Overnet compatable client.. Barry got some of the basic functions of it working, then disapeared from the scene.. (Hope he just got bored and left and that nothing happened to him..) Since Barry was the only one working on it at the time, none of us really continued it right away..
I then decided to continue working on it in my spare time (which was not much). But, instead of a completely new client, I would merge it into the current client.. I studied the Overnet network very hard and created a Overnet compatable eMule client. (Minus lowID support).. After looking at it very hard, I saw some issues with the Overnet protocol that I didn’t like. With the network not being ours, I also wouldn’t be able to change it without breaking Overnet protocol.. So, we as a team decided to do our own protocol with a modified form of Kademlia..
One more thing, if you felt to mod this TESTVERSION, remember that we published it here for test purposes. So dont set modded versions as regular versions or something like that!
If you have troubles starting the test client because of a missing DLL gdiplus.dll, go here and click on the “GDI+ RTM” link there to get the link of the redistributable. Follow the instructions in this package to properly install that DLL on your system.
Now to the brass tax..
The client is in a very alpha state..
here is the sha1-checksum for download with magnet uri
HTTP: here
link is near the bottom of the page.
