New official aMule binaries are typically released only every couple months. To profit from improvements that have been made to the code in the meantime, users normally would have to compile aMule themselves. Many Mac users, however, lack the time, experience or both in order to do this.
The goal of this thread is to provide users with ready-to-use aMule binaries that incorporate all the new features and improvements of the most recent aMule CVS code. Since these are snapshot builds, there is a chance that they are somewhat less stable than the official releases, but I usually go through a reasonable amount of testing to make sure that the versions I post here don't exhibit any obvious problems.
In addition to providing you with the most recent features & fixes, these builds also allow you to give valuable feedback that will help us to improve aMule even further. So please feel free to share your comments on the forum.
Most recent CVS build:Tiger (OS X 10.4) version:
aMule-Mac.CVS.2006-08-10.noDebug_UniversalBinary_TigerOnly.zip (9 MB, uses wxWidgets CVS 2006-08-06)
Panther (OS X 10.3) version:
aMule-Mac.CVS.2006-08-06.noDebug_Panther.zip (5 MB, uses wxWidgets CVS 2006-08-06)
Note: New link for the Tiger Universal Binary version! The one I had originally posted was built against the wrong wx install on my system, which resulted in frequent crashes.
IMPORTANT: These versions contain a number of bigger features (e.g., support for files > 4GB) that are still considered relatively experimental. This is the reason why at this point they are still only in the developer but not in the stable branch of the aMule code base. Because of these changes, I stopped providing CVS builds in January, but I have been running those versions for long enough now that I feel comfortable providing them to cautious users.
To prevent users from accidentally running these experimental builds, they cannot be started through a simple double click. Instead, you need to start them through the Terminal with the switch "--i-would-marry-my-mule". So first you need to start the Terminal application (in /Applications/Utilities/). Then drag the aMule application icon from wherever you keep it and drop it onto the Terminal window. Terminal will insert the path to the application onto the command line. It will also add a space after the path. Now delete the space at the end of the path and paste
/Contents/MacOS/amule --i-would-marry-my-mule to the end of the path. When you then hit return aMule will start.
Version notes:
[*]Needs to be started through the Terminal with the switch "--i-would-marry-my-mule"
[*]Fix: Faster download speeds. Before, the download rate per source would usually not go beyond 3k/s.
[*]Fix: Right-clicking on tabs works finally properly again
[*]The usual number of things that I don't remember off the top of my head right now
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Most recent official stable release:Tiger (OS X 10.4) version:
aMule-2.1.3-Mac_UniversalBinary_TigerOnly.zipPanther (OS X 10.3) version:
aMule-2.1.3-Mac_Panther.zip