[freenet-chat] ANN: pyfcp0.1.8 (+freesitemgr)

[David McNab]

Hi,

Announcing release of version 0.1.8 of pyfcp (with freesitemgr freesite
insertion tool).

Main change is a complete rewrite of freesitemgr:

 - freesitemgr now uses the node global queue

 - 'freesitemgr update' now just submits inserts to the queue and exits
   once these inserts have been sent to the node (it no longer waits
   for the node to notify completion)

 - queued inserts have persistence=forever, so should survive node
   restarts (that is, if the node doesn't forget)

 - if node still has Alzheimer's (forgets queued items), freesitemgr
   will detect this and resubmit

 - subsequent runs of 'freesitemgr update' now reconcile the stored site
   state against the retrieved queue info, so you can also use
   'freesitemgr update' to poll the insert states of your freesites

 - freesitemgr no longer uses ~/.freesites, it now stores everything in
   ~/.freesitemgr/*, in much more readable/hackable files

It is recommended that once you get your freesites set up, you stick the
command 'freesitemgr update' (or 'freesitemgr -v update') into your crontab.

Doze users please note - no attempt has yet been made to test
freesitemgr in a doze environment. That's the next item on my todo. YMMV.

Download locations:
1. svn, from 'pyFreenet'
2. web, via www.freenet.org.nz/python/pyfcp
3. freenet, via
USK at T4gW1EvwSrR9AOlBT2hFnWy5wK0rtd5rGhf6bp75tVo,E9uFCy0NhiTbR0jVQkY77doaWtxTrkS9kuMrzOtNzSQ,AQABAAE/pyfcp/0

If you hit any problems, please file a bug on mantis against project
(https://bugs.freenetproject.org/) against project 'PyFreenet'.

Cheers
David