ShakesPeer

Its because the client is IMITATING an other client.
So I'd much like to have an option. A drop down combo box maybe?
Making you able to pick the DC++ tag or an sharespeer tag..

That would be great

OK.

Since the client already is imitating an other type of client, I se no harm in sharing how you would be able to change your tag. Remember that this tag identifies your client. Show how many hubs you are connected to and so on. So any modification on this tag will lead to a ban. Since there are 100s of clients out there you also might get kicket because of a "modified dc client" or worse a "Operator client only" so be carefull.

One more thing. If this is little hack is beeing used past the limits I've described above, the client will get baned from hubs around. So then there will be no client for all of you mac users, and there will be no point of developing it. SO BE CAREFULL!!!!

here is how it goes.
Open the file sphubd/globals.c
Remove this:

const char *global_dcpp_version = "0.674";

At the end add this:

const char *global_dcpp_version = "0.8.1";
const char *global_dcpp_name = "SPDC";

SPDC as in ShakesPeer Direct Connect. Sticking to ONE tag will eventually help us being known.

Open tghe file sphubd/globals.h
Add this code at the bottom before the #endif tag

extern const char *global_dcpp_name;

In the beginning of the file sphubd/hub.c there is some lines looking like  this

static char *dcpp_tag(hub_t *hub)
{
    char *tag = g_strdup_printf("<++ V:%s,M:%c,H:%d/%d/%d,S:%d>",
            global_dcpp_version,
            hub->me->passive ? 'P' : 'A',
            hub_count_normal(), hub_count_registered(), hub_count_operator(),
            hub_count_slots());

    return tag;
}

Simply change it to this

static char *dcpp_tag(hub_t *hub)
{
    char *tag = g_strdup_printf("<%s V:%s,M:%c,H:%d/%d/%d,S:%d>",
            global_dcpp_name,
            global_dcpp_version,
            hub->me->passive ? 'P' : 'A',
            hub_count_normal(), hub_count_registered(), hub_count_operator(),
            hub_count_slots());

    return tag;
}

That should be about it.
Run make and you should be done.

So, is there any news on this? I'm not sure if i should follow NyZeta's instructions or just leave it the way it is and keep my fingers crossed. Has any Shakespeer user spoken with DCDM users? If we could get shakespeer added to the profile list we would be all set. unless we run into some mac-hating OP, lol.
I'm in the only mac exclusive hub i know of right now, which is mac.myftp.org. All i see are DC++ tags! Please, any info on this would be great.

Can anyone tell me how this shakespeer tag will help those who inhabit hubs that are DC++ only? One of my three hubs I use is DC++ and ODC but that's it. Nothing else is allowed, I'm sure they can't be the only hubs like this either.

Not sure I see the point in a shakespeer tag if it limits the number of hubs we can join.

A working DC++ client on the mac capable of joining all the hubs Is quite frankly something I would donate for. This app saves me lots of cash.. I don't know anything about the innards of these programs, but would a selection tool for choosing between SP and DC++ tags actually work?

At the moment Im back on 0.92, and 0.93 has changed enough for these hubs not to like the client. If 0.92 can do it, then so can future versions?

OK. That's a challenge i'm not looking forward to!

When this tag exists, can you provide us with all the information we need (I know nothing about server side tag admin) to persuade admins to allow shakespeer? Plus a few technical reasons why they should allow this when all they usually support is DC++, that would be great.

Stitch_ wrote:

OK. That's a challenge i'm not looking forward to!

When this tag exists, can you provide us with all the information we need (I know nothing about server side tag admin) to persuade admins to allow shakespeer? Plus a few technical reasons why they should allow this when all they usually support is DC++, that would be great.

I'm with you, man. In a world where "Macs Suck" and we're the minority, it could be an up-hill battle to get some hub opers to modify the system for  a few users who they could possibly care less about. I'm all in favor of an option to choose which tags you use. Besides, unless you know the hub oper/owner personally, how are you going to contact them if you can't even get ON the hub in the first place?

Anyway, the tag is already in the wild, and I'm getting rejection on the local hub just telling me to turn my tags on.

Last edited by Kichigai (2007-03-30 17:50:44)