On 5/30/06, jdaviestx at comcast.net <jdaviestx at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Jusa Saari <jargonautti at hotmail.com>
>
> > Maybe you should consider reimplementing Freenet in pure ANSI C ?-)
>
> Long-time lurker, first-time poster.
>
> I've been lurking around the freenet project for a long time, and I'd love to 
> contribute something.  An implementation of Freenet (or, at least, the node 
> part) in ANSI C is something I've thought would be interesting for quite some 
> time.  However, to make this work, there would have to be some sort of frozen 
> interface on inter-node communications... but if there is such an interface 
> defined, I can't find any documentation on it.  I can find the FCP docs 
> (http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=fcp) of course, but that 
> doesn't cover how nodes talk to other nodes... and I'm afraid of spending 
> *too* much time reverse engineering a protocol that's going to change out 
> from under me before I can get it working.  How stable is this interface?  If 
> I take the first steps toward a working C implementation of the freenet node 
> (that is, documenting the inter-node protocol), is it likely to be a waste of 
> time?
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Any FNP documentation will be better than what we have now(the java
source code of the node).

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