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3.1 KiB
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120 lines
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Ncdc is a modern and lightweight direct connect client with a friendly
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ncurses interface.
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=head2 Get ncdc!
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=over
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=item Latest version
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1.7 ([dllink ncdc-1.7.tar.gz download]
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- L<changes|http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc/changes>
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- L<mirror|https://sourceforge.net/projects/ncdc/files/ncdc/>)
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=item Development version
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The latest development version is available from git and can be cloned using
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C<git clone git://g.blicky.net/ncdc.git>. The repository is available for
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L<online browsing|http://g.blicky.net/ncdc.git/>.
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You are also invited to join the development hub at C<adc://dc.blicky.net:2780/>.
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=item Packages and ports
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Are available for the following systems:
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L<Arch Linux|http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50949> -
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L<FreeBSD|http://www.freshports.org/net-p2p/ncdc/> -
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L<Frugalware|http://frugalware.org/packages/136807> -
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L<Gentoo|http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-p2p/ncdc> -
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L<Mac OS X|http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=ncdc> -
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L<OpenSUSE|http://packman.links2linux.org/package/ncdc>
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=back
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=head2 Features
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Common features all modern DC clients (should) have:
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=item * Connecting to multiple hubs at the same time,
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=item * Support for both ADC and NMDC protocols,
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=item * Chatting and private messaging,
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=item * Browsing the user list of a connected hub,
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=item * Share management and file uploading,
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=item * Connections and download queue management,
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=item * File list browsing,
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=item * Multi-source and TTH-checked file downloading,
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=item * Searching for files,
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=item * Secure hub (adcs:// and nmdcs://) and client connections on both protocols.
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=back
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And special features not commonly found in other clients:
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=item * Subdirectory refreshing,
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=item * Nick notification and highlighting in chat windows,
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=item * Detecting changes to the TLS certificate of a hub,
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=item * Efficient file uploads using sendfile(),
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=item * Large file lists are opened in a background thread,
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=item * Doesn't trash your OS file cache (with the flush_file_cache option enabled),
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=item * (Relatively...) low memory usage.
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=back
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=head2 What doesn't ncdc do?
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Since the above list is getting larger and larger every time, it may be more
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interesting to list a few features that are (relatively) common in other DC
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clients, but which ncdc doesn't do. Yet.
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=item * Segmented downloading,
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=item * Bandwidth throttling,
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=item * OP features (e.g. client detection, file list scanning and other useful stuff for OPs),
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=item * SOCKS support.
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=back
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Of course, there are many more features that could be implemented or improved.
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These will all be addressed in later versions (hopefully :).
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=head2 Requirements
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The following libraries are required: ncurses, bzip2, sqlite3, glib2 and
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libxml2. For TLS support, you will need at least glib2 version 2.28.0 and
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glib-networking installed.
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Ncdc has been developed on Arch Linux, but I have received reports from people
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who successfully used it on CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mac OS X,
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OpenSUSE, Solaris and Ubuntu. It should be fairly trivial to port to other
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POSIX-like systems.
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Ncdc is entirely written in C and available under a liberal MIT license.
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