Hi, I've recently released the first publically announced version of Woodchuck, a download manager for delay tolerant data, such as blogs, podcasts, email, social network updates, weather reports, and calendaring data. Woodchuck aims to save battery power, manage data caps and hide spotty network coverage and high latency. It does this by monitoring network conditions and user behavior and, when conditions are good, tells applications (starting them if necessary) to perform an update.
http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/woodchuck/blog/2011/08/02/version_0.3_released/ Binary packages for the N900 are available: http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/woodchuck/woodchuck.install Woodchuck requires application support. To gain experience with the API I've ported FeedingIt, an RSS reader: http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/woodchuck/feedingit.install I am currently finishing the port of gPodder, and plan to port a few more applications to make sure the API is sound. I'm sending this email for two reasons. First, I'm looking for feedback on the API (and the project in general). Second, as Woodchuck's effectiveness is proportional to the number of applications that actually use it, I'd like to offer to help people port their applications to use Woodchuck. Extensive documentation of the API, the glib-based C library, and the Python modules can be found here: http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/woodchuck/doc/ Thanks, Neal _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
