[p2p-hackers] Re: Identify "defective" nodes

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:00:39AM -0500, Sam Berlin wrote:
> I've been meaning for a very long time to add a plugin architecture to
> LimeWire, for things such as Credence and the like.  If anyone here is
> interested in such an addition, so they can provide their own add-ons
> to the program (and be able to ship just the plugin, not the whole
> program), please let me know.  I'll attempt to gather up what folks
> are looking for in an architecture and write something suitable.

Wouldn't the API needed by plug-ins vary dramatically by what the
plug-in is designed to do?  Or do you have a particular group of
plug-in applications in mind that would interact with LimeWire in a
similar way?

I'd love it if the plug-ins ran as separate processes and communicated
with LimeWire over a local-only TCP port.  That way the plug-ins
wouldn't have to be written in a particular language.  

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon