bsharitt's Journal: Work started on Jim

I've finally started work on Jim, a peer to peer file sharing client for Mac OS X. Right now it's a slightly forked version of GiftBoX. The main difference is that I'm distributing binaries and I've done away with the metal interface. The first thing I plan to do is to implement MP3 playback so I can listen to songs while they are downloading. I've been looking at some examples where people have just embedded Quicktime for playback, and it doesn't look that hard. If I'm going to use Quick time I might ingrate video playback. The only drawback to using Quicktime is that I have though of using GNUStep to port it too other platforms. If that's the case I could probably use some of the lower level Unix stuff, but that might be harder. I think I'll just use Quicktime for now and worry about that if I make a Linux version. The thing I really like about it is that is uses giFT and the OpenFT network. I'm sick of Limewire and all those other Gnutella clients. Gnutella wasn't so bad until Morpheus started using it. Using the OpenFT network gives you the speed and stability of Kazaa and FastTrack, although there aren't as many users on it now, which is another main reason for main reason for making Jim. If I can get people to use it, there are more people on the network, thus more files. I have put the preliminary version on Sourceforge.