aMule Forum
English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: jongampark on May 18, 2004, 08:02:41 AM
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This post is not about bugs with Mac version of the amule.
I'd like to emphasize how important this project is for MacOS X platform. :)
Well.. whether you admit or not, as PC games was so before, good P2P programs are, I personally think, a driving force for popularity of a platform nowadays.
Nowadays, on many Korean web bbs forums, I read some posts, "how to get softwares, movies". Well.. in any sense, the most files distributed by the P2P is illegal and it is not good, eternally.
However, many teens and many PC-holics depends on P2P programs like eMule, overnet, Limewire, Acquisition, Bearshare, etc, and many people complains that they can't find files they want to have with Mac version of P2P programs, or they just complain like this.
"Mac doesn't have eDonkey clients." etc. We know that it is simply wrong. But to many general users, Unix style setting of the mldonkey, and not-so-multilingual mlMac, which is a UI on top of the mldonkey, are too complicated. They don't understand why their PC slows down when they run P2P programs, don't understand why they should choose other values for download/upload speed, etc. Many people don't know that there are P2P programs on Mac.
Anyway, they evaluate how good the Mac is by the fact that P2P programs they want is there. :) ( Well.. it is very childish, but.. )
Unlike the US, where Kazaa is so popluar before the Kazaa-lite was banned, in Korea, eDonkey is one of the most popular P2P network. They use the Puruna, which is Windows version of eDonkey client which resembles the Bearshare and eMule.
Many movie files and music files are available from Korean users. Overnet once has a page that they needed Korean translator, because their statistics said that Koreans are one of the biggest user base of their program.
So.. in many sense, aMule is very important projects and it needs to support multiple languages for searching, browsing, and so on.
Be proud of you, amule developers! :)
By the way, I understand that one of the goal of the amule is to change wxWinow code to pure Cocoa code. How much of them is changed to cocoa?