[freenet-chat] Thaw: A Fuqid replacement

[Jerome Flesch]

Hello,

As some of you already know it, I'm currently working on Thaw. So what is 
Thaw? Thaw is a program aiming to become, in a first step, a good Fuqid 
replacement, and in a second step, a program helping users to make their own 
file indexation, share these indexes, and search quickly in these indexes 
(later reinsertions-on-demand and various things like this will probably be 
added).

Currently, Thaw seems to have reached the first step: It is now perfectly 
useable to download and insert files on Freenet. That's why today, I announce 
its first public availability. 

You can find Thaw here:
CHK at IP3lCht4EIWGRHOIzfNxxO~cshKphRtWdKT1eeo8mHE,CBPh79bHPGgntj3zSV2zjFu1bkMZfq38hh5P~~ooXLI,AAEC--8/Thaw-0.1-beta.jar

But if you want the latest improvements, Thaw snapshots are available here:
http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/Thaw/
(The file is always called Thaw.jar, but is updated after each new 
improvement) 

You can report possible bugs here:
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/

The mailing-list where you will be able to see all new improvements and 
discuss of possible new ones:
http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thaw

A Frost board is available: "thaw"

To avoid the usual questions, here are some details:
- Thaw is written in Java / Swing, so you will need at least a jre 1.4
- Thaw uses persistent requests: When you start a request (insertion / 
download), it's the node which manages it. So if you close Thaw, the request 
will continue to run on the node.
- Thaw is designed to work on another computer than the node. So even if they 
are working on the same computer, Thaw will transfer files to/from the node 
as if they would be distant.
( https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=562 )
- Thaw will create a configuration file. This file is stored where Thaw is 
runned (it allows multiple installations if needed).
- Thaw is the legal property of the Freenet Project.

To conclude, thanks to Toad, Nextgens, Bback, Sanity, Usurp, ET (Frost), and 
all the people who helped me :) (sorry if I've omitted some people)

-- 
Jerome Flesch.