[freenet-chat] my 0.7 feedback

[Ian Clarke]

That is nice to hear David, welcome back :-)

Ian.

On 10 May 2006, at 16:26, David McNab wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been away from freenet for some time, largely due to the
> frustration caused by Freenet's pathological unreliability in the
> 0.4,0.5 era as I was trying to get Freemail to work reliably.
>
> In the last couple of weeks, I've been dabbling with 0.7, and have  
> been
> in the process of implementing pyfcp (a python library for clients to
> access freenet via FCP), and development has taken a couple of  
> orders of
> magnitude less time and effort (and pain) compared to its  
> counterpart on
> 0.4-0.6.
>
> I want to say that with the new architecture of 0.7, I feel my  
> energies
> and enthusiasm have regenerated (after feeling burned out and
> disillusioned with 0.4-0.6). So congratulations, lots of bouquets, and
> lots of fine wine/malt whisky/sticky buds/funny mushrooms/etc to the
> architects and developers.
>
> In particular, some of the features I'm really enjoying are:
>
>  - transparent splitfiles handling within the node - no more of this
>    dragging the client through the entrails of this complicated  
> process
>
>  - FCP's 'ClientPutComplexDir', making freesite insertion an absolute
>    breeze
>
>  - the USK keytype, and its transparent management within the node.  
> This
>    rocks so goddam hard - no more tedious freesite insertion  
> schedules,
>    no more annoying metadata construction, no more sites dropping off
>    if the author misses an insertion deadline
>
>  - Metadata.ContentType - marvelously simple and to the point. In
>    99.95% of cases, no more metadata than this is needed
>
>  - fproxy's improvements, and ability to manage lots of stuff via
>    the web interface
>
> Guys, you've won me back as a client writer, and I'm sure you'll win
> back a lot more people as word of 0.7's atonements gets out.
>
> Cheers
> David (aum)
>
>
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