[Mldonkey-users] How do you get 2.03? Easy.

[Brett Dikeman]

At 1:54 PM +0100 3/10/03, MLdonkey wrote:

> The problem is that savannah has forbidden the access to mldonkey
> download area, so we are not even allowed to put the binaries
> online. I don't know how they want us to release a new version if they
> don't help us a little...

Stand back folks, I'm about to engage in some serious rocket science here.

ed2k://|file|unofficial-mldonkey2.03-20030311.src.tar.bz2|1522119|c83300cb2e8ca88a379cf6bd162cea2a|

I've specifically tagged the filename with "unofficial" since a)I 
pulled it from a mirror b)I have no MD5sum to verify the archive 
integrity against c)I'm not a developer.

I make -no- guarantees as to the integrity of this tarball.

To head off the predictable "that won't work for new users who don't 
have mldonkey" reply- no kidding.  But it will work for all the 
people who have any of the previous versions installed and running- 
or any other edonkey/overnet client for that matter.

If you're serious about getting a new version out, build all the 
various static and dynamically-linked versions for all the various 
platforms, and then put up ed2k links on the download page at 
Savannah and post to the mailing list.  I'll certainly contribute my 
bandwidth- the archives are pretty small, which makes them easy to 
share.  Please include MD5's(PGP signing would be even better) as 
well, so people can easily verify archives.

To head off "that's silly, nobody would ever trojan an open-source 
software tarball" - WRONG. Just ask the tcpdump/libpcap team. 
Someone broke into their distro site and modified the archives, added 
a nice little trojan/worm...nobody noticed for quite some time.

B
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