Re: [Mldonkey-users] GuiProtocol - official spec

[Jörg Maisenbacher]

Ofer Nave wrote:

> > Attention any MLDonkey developers, or developers who have worked on 
> > MLDonkey GUIs.
> >
> > I would like to implement the GuiProtocol in perl in a module form, so 
> > that others can painlessly interface with MLDonkey in perl.  I would like 
> > to get an official spec for the GuiProtocol, but the best thing I can find 
> > so far is:
> >
> > http://mldonkey.lemmster.de/wiki/index.php/GuiProtocol
> >
> > What do all the people who develop the various gui clients use as their 
> > reference?
> >
> > -ofer
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Ofer Nave wrote:
> So is learning OCaml and reading the source the only way to get the 
exact
> details of the protocol?


You don't have to learn OCAML, at least i didn't. If you have little 
programming skills, you will be able to recognize function-calls, or the 
equvalents in OCAML and so on. And then you will see, how the 
gui-messages are built, and ...and... and...

For this, use editor with syntax-coloring, makes things a lot easier.

Dek