Talk:MLDonkey

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I removed the sentence

Since the application allows downloads without offering uploads, the application has been criticized as supporting leeches.

It may be true that this criticism has been voiced, but since all peer to peer applications allow leeching, the criticism is grossly unfair and need not be repeated here. AxelBoldt 08:28, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

More accurately, MLDonkey does not support sharing at all on some of its supported networks.—Eloquence 08:30, Sep 18, 2003 (UTC)

All this gets fixed, and allways has been temporary until the network in question was fully supported. The user's upload is an individual resposibility, anyone can leech with any client if that is what they want, no need to go back witch hunting so everyone has to use your favorite client.. -Stéphane

Why is it written in a functional language? Doesn't that make it slow?--84.188.146.27 17:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

there is no reason why a functional language would be any slower then a non functional language, and quite a few run as fast as C, http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ . Which is quite a feat, since all of them offer garbage collection (User317 21:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC));

[edit] Gnutella / G2

The article contains the phrase:

Support for Gnutella and G2 networks was removed in release 2.9.0 [1].

Is this actually true? I have ver. 2.9.1 and it can use Gnutella and G2 (although doesn't by default). Also the reference doesn't actually seem to back up this statement. It is a list of bullet points (from a forum post?) and says

- do not compile unmaintained Gnutella/G2 by default

I would dispute that this constitutes proof of "removal of support"; although it does imply maybe its been relegated from default status and/or is not actively maintained? The reference also lacks a context. In addition the page [[1]] does not list Gnutella / G2 as networks that were supported but now aren't. Does anyone know what the actual situation is? At the very least I think the reference needs to be replaced by a better one. 82.32.73.92 (talk) 14:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

You guys are right. This has been made OPTIONAL and won't compile with default settings; i. e. you have to manually enable it. BTW when reading the article at first, I thought it was legal pressure forcing the author to remove G2 support, but it seems it is merely unmaintained and no one wants to work for it atm. Will adapt this a bit. -andy 85.179.59.34 (talk) 07:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)