Added page for ncdc

index.cgi

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ TUWF::register(
   qr{ncdu}          => \&ncdu,
   qr{ncdu/changes}  => \&ncduchangelog,
   qr{ncdu/man}      => \&ncdumanual,
+  qr{ncdc}          => \&ncdc,
   qr{tuwf}          => \&tuwf,
   qr{tuwf/man(?:/(db|misc|request|response|xml))?}
                     => \&tuwfmanual,
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ sub home {
    E;
   end;
   h2 'Updates';
+  b '2011-06-03'; txt ' Added my latest project: ncdc'; br;
   b '2011-02-07'; txt ' TUWF 0.1 released and now also available on CPAN'; br;
   b '2011-01-27'; txt ' Documented and uploaded one of my older projects: TUWF'; br;
   b '2011-01-09'; txt ' Added my json.mll OCaml library to code dump'; br;
@@ -165,6 +167,93 @@ sub ncdumanual {
 
 
 
+#    N C D C
+
+sub ncdc {
+  my $s = shift;
+  $s->htmlHeader(title => 'NCurses Direct Connect', page => 'ncdc');
+  p;
+   lit <<'   E;';
+    <b>2003 called. They wanted me to write a text-mode alternative to DC++.</b><br />
+    ncdc is a modern and lightweight direct connect client with a friendly
+    ncurses interface.
+   E;
+  end;
+
+  h2 'Requirements';
+  p;
+   lit <<'   E;';
+    The following libraries are required: ncurses, bzip2, gdbm, glib2 and libxml2.<br />
+    These dependencies should be easy to satisfy. Depending on your system, you
+    may have all of these installed already.<br />
+    <br />
+    ncdc has been developed on a recent Arch Linux installation and has been
+    tested on Debian Squeeze. It should be fairly trivial to port to other
+    POSIX-like systems.<br />
+    <br />
+    ncdc is entirely written in C and available under a liberal MIT license.
+   E;
+  end;
+
+  h2 'Current Status';
+  p 'ncdc is currently still in development, and still lacks many of the
+     features one would expect from a DC client. The following is a list of
+     features that have been implemented so far:';
+  ul;
+   li 'Connecting to multiple hubs at the same time,';
+   li 'Chatting and private messaging,';
+   li 'Browsing the user list of a connected hub,';
+   li 'Share management (file list generation, hashing, refreshing, etc),';
+   li 'File uploading in passive mode,';
+   li 'Replying to search requests from other clients.';
+  end;
+
+  h2 'Try it out';
+  p;
+   txt 'The current version might be slightly awkward to use and is not really
+     suited for serious use. Nonetheless, it\'s not entirely useless. You can get
+     the latest development version of ncdc from ';
+   a href => 'http://g.blicky.net/ncdc.git/', 'this git repository';
+   txt '. The README includes instructions to build ncdc.';
+  end;
+
+  h2 'Quick Q&A';
+  ul;
+   li; txt 'What about other text-mode clients?'; br;
+    a href => 'http://corsair626.no-ip.org/microdc/', 'microdc2';
+    txt ' - A rather nice client, yet not exactly there. It\'s limited to
+      connecting to a single hub, hasn\'t been updated since 2006, and the
+      readline interface is slightly awkward to use.';br;
+    a href => 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/nanodc/', 'nanodc';
+    txt ' - Can\'t comment much on this, except maybe that rocket science is
+      perhaps easier than getting nanodc to compile.'; br;br;
+   end;
+   li; txt 'Can ncdc connect to ADC hubs?'; br;
+    txt 'Not yet. My initial focus is to get a working client for the old NMDC
+      protocol, since, unfortunately, that is still the most widely used. Support
+      for ADC is planned.'; br;br;
+   end;
+   li; txt 'Can ncdc use the hash data or configuration from an existing DC++ installation?'; br;
+    txt 'No, ncdc uses its own configuration and hash storage directory.
+      However, on popular demand I could write a conversion utility to transfer
+      the hash data from other clients to ncdc\'s format.'; br;br;
+   end;
+   li; txt 'What protocol features does ncdc support?'; br;
+    txt 'Hub: NoGetINFO and NoHello.'; br;
+    txt 'Client: MiniSlots, XmlBZList, ADCGet, TTHL and TTHF.'; br;
+    txt q|That is pretty much everything you'd expect any modern client to
+      have. Note that ncdc does not support some of the older protocol
+      features, like $Get, $GetZBlock, $CHUNK and $Cancel. I am not aware of
+      any other up-to-date client that requires these.|;
+   end;
+  end;
+
+  $s->htmlFooter;
+}
+
+
+
+
 #    T U W F
 
 
@@ -569,6 +658,7 @@ sub htmlHeader {
     div id => 'menu';
      a href => '/',     !$o{page}          ? (class => 'sel') : (), 'home'; txt ' ';
      a href => '/ncdu', $o{page} eq 'ncdu' ? (class => 'sel') : (), 'ncdu'; txt ' ';
+     a href => '/ncdc', $o{page} eq 'ncdc' ? (class => 'sel') : (), 'ncdc'; txt ' ';
      a href => '/tuwf', $o{page} eq 'tuwf' ? (class => 'sel') : (), 'tuwf'; txt ' ';
      a href => '/dump', $o{page} eq 'dump' ? (class => 'sel') : (), 'code dump';
     end;