| 1 | Halite: A Free Open-Source BitTorrent client
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| 3 | Version: 0.2.9 Revision 344 Snapshot released 2nd December 2007
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| 4 |
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| 5 | NOTE! This is a snapshot build, as such there are incomplete features.
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| 6 | Please see the forum for the most up to date details.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | WWW: http://www.binarynotions.com/halite.php Forum:
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| 9 | http://www.binarynotions.com/forum.php
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| 10 |
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| 11 | Developer: Eóin O'Callaghan
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| 12 |
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| 13 | Halite (named after the mineral) is a BitTorrent client based on Arvid
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| 14 | Norberg's excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. The
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| 15 | program also relies on the Boost libraries.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Features:
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| 18 |
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| 19 | While still at an early state of development Halite is a functional
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| 20 | BitTorrent client. So far its list of features is pretty standard but
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| 21 | that is because I want to ensure it does the basic stuff well.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | That said, it supports:
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| 24 |
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| 25 | + Multiple downloads.
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| 26 | + Displays more detailed information for the selected torrent.
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| 27 | + Connection limits both global and per-torrent.
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| 28 | + Transfer rate limits again global and per-torrent.
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| 29 | + Minimize to tray with transfer rate summary.
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| 30 | + Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol).
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| 31 | + IP filtering with eMule ipfilter.dat import.
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| 32 | + Association with ".torrent" files.
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| 33 | + Option to limit the number of instances to one.
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| 34 | + Estimated time remaining indicator.
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| 35 | + Full Unicode support through UTF-8 and native Windows wide-char
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| 36 | strings.
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| 37 | + Login support where tracker requires it.
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| 38 | + Ability to edit trackers specified in the torrent.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | Planned in near future:
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| 41 |
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| 42 | Listed here is what is being worked on in the short term; for a more
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| 43 | detailed list see [http://www.binarynotions.com/halite/roadmap.php].
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| 44 |
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| 45 | + Translations of the UI into a number of languages through the help
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| 46 | of volunteers.
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| 47 | + Improved and extended information on the details given for
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| 48 | connected peers.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | Requirements: Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista (Note currently
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| 51 | Vista users need to install the application to a directory where they
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| 52 | will have full read and write access to. The recommended solution is
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| 53 | to use the standalone exe distribution and not the installer.
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| 54 |
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| 55 | Known Issues/Problems:
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| 56 |
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| 57 | Halite does not always gracefully accept configuration information
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| 58 | from previous versions. Should you experience crashes upon running
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| 59 | Halite you should delete any old Halite.ini.xml or Halite.xml.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | You will not lose any downloads in progress and those which do not
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| 62 | restart automatically can be done so manually by loading the
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| 63 | associated torrent file from the 'torrents' subdirectory.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | Changes:
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| 66 |
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| 67 | - from v 0.2.8 to 0.2.9:
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| 68 | 1) Full Unicode support!
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| 69 | 2) Rewitten XML fileformat with greatly improved robustness.
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| 70 | 3) New tabbed interface makes better use of screen real estate.
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| 71 | 4) Ability to edit Trackers and set login details.
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| 72 | 5) Comprehensive logging for diagnosing problems.
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| 73 | 6) Windows 2000 and Server 2003 supported fully.
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| 74 | 7) Updated to recent versions of Boost and libtorrent.
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| 75 | 8) Numerous bug fixes.
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| 76 | 9) Switched to MSVC 2005 compiler (8.0) for improved reliability
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| 77 | though at the cost of slightly bigger executables.
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| 78 |
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| 79 | - from v 0.2.7 to 0.2.8:
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| 80 | 1) IP filtering support eMule style ipfilter.dat files.
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| 81 | 2) DHT support, thought it is turned off by default.
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| 82 | 3) Can select alternate save directory for torrents..
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| 83 | 4) New icon!
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| 84 |
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| 85 | - from v 0.2.6 to 0.2.7:
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| 86 | 1) By default Halite will only allow one instance to be launched
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| 87 | 2) Halite can be set as the default program for '.torrent' files.
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| 88 | 3) ETA indicator for torrents. 4) Minor GUI tweaks.
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| 89 |
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| 90 | - from v 0.2.5 to 0.2.6:
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| 91 | 1) Fixed a silly bug (i.e. I should have caught it sooner) whereby
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| 92 | exiting Halite from the tray would screw up the window layout
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| 93 | next time running it.
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| 94 | 2) Added auto-selection to Torrents list to make it more intuitive.
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| 95 |
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| 96 | - from v 0.2 to 0.2.5:
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| 97 | 1) The GUI is slightly altered so that it looks consistent and neat
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| 98 | for a number of visual styles which I was able to test it on.
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| 99 | 2) The ability to drag and drop torrent files into the app has been
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| 100 | added.
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| 101 | 3) It will minimize to the tray instead of task bar and hovering
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| 102 | mouse for the tray icon displays the current up and down rate.
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| 103 | 4) Where previously the various limits boxes didn't validate
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| 104 | properly now they do and any invalid input is interpreted as no
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| 105 | limit and a nice infinity symbol is displayed.
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| 106 | 5) Individual torrent info is saved and loaded when the program is
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| 107 | closed and reopened allowing torrent limits to be remembered.
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| 108 | 6) If the program has to wait after the user clicking close for any
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| 109 | active connections to shutdown down 'cleanly' an optional small
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| 110 | dialog is displayed to alert the user that the program is still
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| 111 | running.
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| 112 |
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| 113 | Subversion: svn://svn.geekisp.com/halite
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| 114 |
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| 115 | In addition you can check out the Trac site(trac.geekisp.com/halite)
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| 116 | but I haven't really done much with it ... yet.
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| 117 |
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| 118 | Thanks:
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| 119 |
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| 120 | It can be hard to remember to thank everyone but that is no excuse for
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| 121 | leaving someone out. If I have done so let me know.
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| 122 |
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| 123 | + Arvid Norberg- As the author of libtorrent he has made the single
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| 124 | biggest contribution to this project.
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| 125 | http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/index.html
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| 126 |
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| 127 | + Christopher Kohloff- The man behind Boost.ASIO a crucial element
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| 128 | of libtorrent and my own libhttp library.
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| 129 | http://asio.sourceforge.net/
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| 130 |
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| 131 | + nudone (Nick Pearson)- The excellent artist who designed the icon
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| 132 | for Halite.
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| 133 | wtfcody.com / nudsville.com
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| 134 |
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| 135 | + Austin- Very kindly made the Iss install script for Halite.
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| 136 |
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| 137 | + Everyone who has been in touch with me through email or the forum
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| 138 | and have shared their ideas and feature requests for the client.
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| 139 | They have given the project direction and purpose.
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