Genny Test v0.28 released, Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:53:15

Greetings all,

Fixed and changed:

I think I have finally decided in an import format.  Everything is
imported by name on the top of each function.  It makes for a lot of
importting lines, but I think it is clearest to the programmer.

I have changed the file service to delimit search results with null
zeros instead of newlines.  This is saner.

Some code has been marked as nonportable to make life easier for would
be porters to non-Unix.

File transfers are tagged with the URL they are attempting to download,
and the exit status is reported with the URL when the getting process
returns.  You can know if your get succeeded or failed.

The identifiers dictionary has been made into a saner struct, which
makes the code less line noisy and easier to read.

I wrote a couple library functions for switching around IP address
strings and their raw form.  Also, the configuration dictionary keeps IP
addresses in their raw form as opposed a string, now.

I fixed a small bug in the user interface that would cause a crash when
you managed to send it an empty string, or something like that.

The code now ignores non-connection related packets from connections
that are not fully connected.

Miscellaneous other changes.

The Foo and Bar connection-checking thing has been changed to make
disconnections due to dropped packets less likely.  Foos are now sent
every thirty seconds, and four bars in a row have to be dropped.

I changed the arguments of gennylib.control so you can send the routing
header (first ten bytes of the header) to it as an argument, and it will
send that.  That is so it can use the 0.8 version of the Control
Service's way of Foo and Barring.  I put the foo/bar random data in the
header since it wasn't being used, aren't I smart.

Not much changed in chat land, except for the way I like doing imports
now.

I wrote a search() in genny_file which is just compares a search query
with a pathname, and returns a bool according to whether or not it
matches.

I split handle_genny_file into three functions, two more being
handle_genny_file_search and handle_genny_file_hits, and boy does that
look nicer.

And misc. other changes in the file service.

I have uploaded the new protocol documents.


Plans and news:

To document the file service!

To implement my PUSHREQ ideas and then document them with the file
service when they work.

Write channels and /msg into the chat service.

Write /ignore into the chat service.  That'll be some work, I think.

If no critical bugs are found pretty soon, I am going to release this as
an alpha release.  I am going to encourage publicity about this alpha
release as well.  I'm nervous.  :-/

TomG

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