Re: Re: [core-dev] Hello, thanks, and Limwire.exe

Hi Sam, it's good to meet you. I'm looking forward to being involved, and as you mention the source code is very well documented. As for calculating person-years, it sounds like at least 16 years of work so far (4 full time there over 4 years). Add in the [difficult to measure] contributions from the open source community over that time, and I wouldn't be surprised if that added at least 1 person year on average each year to yield somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 person-years (5 people x 4 years). To help put this in perspective, it means that a single person with the right skills would take about two decades to achieve what your team and the community have done in about 4. Another way to look at it: if Limewire were created by a single Computer Science college graduate who started the project upon graduation at, say, 22 years old, would be middle-aged and with teenagers driving around by now :)

Thanks for the advice on how to get magnet links to work. I belive I've been doing that, and it works a lot of the time but once in a while the non-CVS version is launched even though my CVS version is running when the magnet is clicked. This has happened off and on over the past several weeks that I've been getting up to speed, and it's the same with at least one other person I work with. We both installed the full version of Limewire, and ran that before installing the CVS version. That configured our systems to handle magnet links, and then we simply use run.bat to run our CVS versions before clicking on magnets (this way the CVS version is running when the magnet is clicked). Most of the time this works just fine, but about one in five times (give or take) the original version of Limewire is actually executed to handle the link: we then have both versions running (CVS and the original). We often have to quit all apps and restart the computer to reset things, but since it happens often we end up doing that several times during the course of development.

I have tried to overcome this by actually using Limewire.exe with my own CVS compiled code, but it seems that Limewire.exe actually uses checksums to ensure that it only launches the version of Limewire that it ships with (I can't swap out the JARS and files that came with it to use my own). I also tried to configure the Windows registry key to use the run.bat, but that didn't work at all (well, it was worth a shot!).

Is there any chance that you could provide us with a compiled version of Limewire.exe that doesn't use checksums so that we can use it with our own compiled code?

Best to you and the team,
Eli

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