The most important news today is the addition of
ed2k_kad module to the main codebase. Developed by cyberz, it's still not working, but the base structures are in place, and some initial communication with the network has been implemented. It also includes a
generic Kademlia algorithm template, which is now part of hncore library, and will be re-used for all Kademlia-based networks.
sca is continueing his work on improving the build system, the latest addition is revision 2036, which adds proper handling for MODULE_DIR variable, new wrapper scripts which properly handle plugin/library locations, and many miscellaneous improvements.
Wubbla has been busy with stabilizing http module, which showed a number of crashes during last testing; there's hope that the module can be enabled by default in next release.
Personally I haven't been able to do much coding past few days, due to real-life-related problems. The bittorrent module simplification topic is still open, but I did some brainstorming today and visualized (on paper) the entire user interface. Some details still need work, and I'm no photoshop guru, so I can't digitalize it for your viewing pleasure, but this is the first time we have the full user interface visualized completely (previous attempts have only visualized parts or single pages of the interface). What I can say is that it follows the thoughts from
previous blog posting, with familiarity, simplicity and extendability as main keywords.
Madcat.