MLDonkey

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MLDonkey

Initial release	late 2001
Stable release	3.0.0  (2009-02-24; 4 months ago) [+/−]
Preview release	none  ( ) [+/−]
Written in	Objective Caml, with some C and assembly
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	?
Type	P2P File sharing
License	GPL
Website	mldonkey.sourceforge.net

MLDonkey is an open source, free software multi-network peer-to-peer application. It is also the name of the peer-to-peer overlay network that the MLDonkey uses. Originally a Linux client for the eDonkey protocol, it now runs on many flavors of Unix-like, Mac OS X, Windows and MorphOS and supports numerous peer-to-peer protocols. It is written in Objective Caml, with some C and even some assembly parts.

Contents 1 History 2 Features 3 See also 4 References 5 Frontends 6 External links

[edit] History

Development of the software began in late 2001. The original developer of MLDonkey is Fabrice Le Fessant from INRIA.

[edit] Features

Features of MLdonkey core:

• Peer to peer (p2p) program that supports the following network protocols, either partially or completely:
  • eDonkey network
  • Overnet
  • BitTorrent
  • FastTrack
  • Kad Network
  • OpenNap (currently broken)
  • SoulSeek (currently broken)
  • Direct Connect
  • HTTP/FTP
• Controlled by Telnet, Web interface or various GUIs

From release 2.9.0 on, support for Gnutella and G2 are no longer compiled in by default; however, it is still possible to compile it in by making the appropriate setting in the configuration file.^[1]

Written in the Ocaml programming language and licensed under the GPL, the application separates the user interface (which can be a web browser, telnet, or a third-party GUI application) and the code that interacts with the peer-to-peer networks.

MLDonkey is able to connect simultaneously to different peers using different network protocols. In addition it can download and merge parts of one file from different network protocols^[2] although this feature is currently documented as experimental. MLDonkey runs in a terminal session and does not require a GUI environment, saving memory and processing resources. Behavior is controlled by editable configuration files, or—in a more user friendly fashion—from a separate user interface.

[edit] See also

• Comparison of eDonkey software

[edit] References

[edit] Frontends

• Epicea
• KMLDonkey (KDE)
• Sancho
• Burro
• Onager (PalmOS)
• DonkeyFire Firefox Extension

[edit] External links

• MLDonkey project page
• MLDonkey Homepage
• MLDonkey developer page -> Bug/Task/Patch-tracker
• MLDonkey Downloads
• MLDonkey/Mulus File Archive

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