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[lionel77]

Here is the promised Universal Binary for the proud owners of the new Intel Macs. I've compiled this binary on my G5, on which it seems to run fine, but I have not been able to actually test it on a x86 machine, so I would greatly appreciate any feedback on how it works on an Intel Mac.

The code it's based on is current CVS code, but from the 2.1.x stable branch, which means that all the recent scary stuff is not included. It's built against wxWidgets CVS 2006-02-01.
It also contains a small patch I wrote, which displays the "Share Ratio" (amount uploaded / file size) for each file in the shared files list. In addition, the timer settings are modified, which might help somewhat against CPU hogging behavior.

You can get the build from:
aMule-Mac_Universal.CVS.2006-02-28.noDebug.zip

Finally, another big thank you to ken, who provided much of the brains in this endeavor.

[SveDec]

I love you !!:baby::p
Thanks for this Intel release !! ^^
It seems to be stable (i didn't have any bug for the moment, contrary of the PowerPC release, who worked 5mn !!), i'll report you possible bugs
To finish, sorry for my bad english :s

[bongo]

Thank you for this release.
For now it seems to be stable (at least for much longer than the rosetta version).
One small problem:
I can set the bandwith limit via amulecmd but it's not recognized by the amule pref pane. So i can't check the actual bandwith in the prefpane (which is not a problem because i see in the stat section that the speed goes up or down. but when i open the pref pane the old values are displayed for some reason and if i click ok, the limit is reset to this old values.

[lionel77]

Thanks for the quick feedback guys -- I'm really glad it did not just blow up upon double-click...

bongo, is it possible that you kept an open preference window in the background when you used amulecmd to change the up- and down settings? That was the only way I could reproduce your problem. If I don't keep a preference window open, the settings are properly changed even inside the preferences.

[bongo]

i just tried it again and it doesn't matter if the prefpane is opnen in the background during amulecmd activity. i get the success msg from amulecmd but if i open the prefpane (when it's already open, it doesn't chage the value what i also don't expect) there are the old values.
looks like the values are only changed in memory from amulecmd but not written to disk.

btw, is it possible to perhaps set a log-level for amule? in the log i see only "accepting external connection", "connecting to..", "access granted" and then "connection terminated"

in the terminal it says something like "make client", "success, connection established", than the amulecmd startheader, "success", then "bandwith settings: up:x, down:x", and at last amulecmd terminated.

[bongo]

the news values are written to disk. i just tried to set new limits via amulecmd and than looked at amule.conf
maxdownload and  maxupload are changing.
they are also changed, when i set the limit via the prefpane.
so ...
- the prefpane gets the new values after setting them via prefpane when i reopen it
- the prefpane gets the new values after setting them via amulecmd when i restart amule
- the (closed) prefpane don't get new values after setting them via amulecmd when i just open the prefpane to check the values.

so it seems that when opening the prefpane the new values are not read but only during the startup from amule. but why are the displayed values then updated when setting them via prefpane?

very strange.

 ;(

[[Rsync]]

It's stable for now, a bit slow in start, others tests incoming.

[fox2k]

Originally posted by [Rsync]
It's stable for now, a bit slow in start, others tests incoming.

for me amule starts much faster than the g5 version.. under a second. fast enough

for now it's stable.. nice work

thank you
fox2k

[bongo]

one small problem in the search section: if you have more searches running and want to close one tab with a right-click it selects the wrong tab and a wx-widget error pops up.
in the amule-log it says:
Debug: ../wxWidgets/src/mac/carbon/notebmac.cpp(157): assert "wxAssertFailure" failed: SetSelection: invalid notebook page

[ken]

Yeah, this seems to be a regression in wx.  X(

[neth]

it doesn't work for me on my dual-core iMac. after start up it cannot connect to any server due to timeouts (yes, i have used a working server.met instead the default one) and it is incredible slow when scrolling through the server list (takes seconds before anything happens when using the scrollball, cpu load while "normal" scrolling up to 90%). no idea why it doesn't like me...

[lionel77]

neth, are you maybe running aMule through Rosetta? I think you can check this by doing a "Get Info" on the aMule icon.

[neth]

hmm, no idea. i downloaded the universal binary and i can't see, why mac os should want to run the ppc part of it through rosetta. but i just downloaded 2.1.1 and this seems to work.  it's still is very slow while scrolling but at least it can connect to servers and the search function works. no idea why...

[bongo]

as lionel77 said, you can run an univeral binary application on an intel mac checking a switch in the finder info panel of the application.
for me the universal version 2.1.1 runs as stable as version 2.1.0.
also the cosmetic "bug" using amuled to set connection speed is unchanged.
what do you mean with "slow scrolling"? scrolling what?
i see only small delays scrolling a lot of search results. mostly when the search is still running and the results are updated during the scroll.
the delays are longer using the scrollball on the mouse, using the scroll bar in the window they are mostly gone. strange, but not a big problem.

[Digi]

Runiing  aMule 2.1.1 Universal Binary in my Imac Intel.... just nice....

Start with high CPU use... until I get connect, than run smooth with low CPU use. Just run once... I will do another test to see if happens again.

With the old version, not universal, get about 18% or more % of CPU.... with this one get's about 4%!!