ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.4.3 has just been released by the etoy.MAD-CODER dept.
Unfortunately, a major bug slipped into the release of last week. This release fixes the problem and introduces minor networking improvements as well as an updated layout for the directory listing.
More detailed information can be found in the CHANGES file.
A download is available at http://angelapp.missioneternity.org/index.py/Download.
We're excited to announce the immediate availability of the ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.4.2 code-named "pollination", a peer-to-peer system for storing ARCANUM CAPSULES for eternity.
This is mainly a bugfix release over version 0.4.1 and improves performance and introduces download bandwidth throttling. Every Angel should upgrade.
More detailed information can be found in the CHANGES file.
A download is available at http://angelapp.missioneternity.org/index.py/Download.
UPDATE (May 22 2009): this release has a major bug, please fallback to a newer version as announced.
As in many years previously, on April 1st, a new RFC has been published: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5514.txt
Obviously, it's a hoax. "IPv6 over Facebook" is not something anyone is gonna actually believe in, or even implement. But wait: the idea behind this joke is actually quite a good one: define an ipv6 prefix and assign another computed value to the rest of the address. What the hoax doesn't provide is working routability and compatibility with the existing ipv4 internet.
If you think the idea is ridiculous, consider this:
“Some men see things as they are and say, ‘why?’ I dream of things the way they never were and say, ‘why not?’"
- Robert F. Kennedy, after George Bernard Shaw
The concept of computing new, dynamic ipv6 addresses is actually available in practice through the Teredo standard. There are different implementations out in the wild, one of which is free: Miredo. Teredo provides both global addressability and routability! And it is compatibe to the existing ipv4 internet infrastructure.
So how to use this technology for a social network, wherein every user/participant will receive a globally unique, dynamic and routable ip address? Simple, just make miredo part of the peer-to-peer software and make sure to enable ipv6 in the operating system.
This is what etoy.CORPORATION has implemented in the ANGEL APPLICATION. The ANGEL APPLICATION NETWORK, an arcane network of computers, is loosely connected via the internet, safeguarding and sharing digital fragments of MISSION ETERNITY PILOTS. The individual ANGELS are technically routed over the existing internet via virtual ipv6 addresses, just as the RFC hoax suggests. This is loosely documented in the ANGEL WIKI.
This april fools hoax is very interesting in the sense that ideas, be it for jokes, can turn out to be real world concepts/products that help us find new ways for experiencing culture, emotions, rituals, belief, life and death.
Timothy Leary's last words are reported to have been: "Why? Why not? WHY NOT? Why not? Why not? Why not?" and later, "Beautiful."
We are very pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of the maintenance release of ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.3.2 code-named "VIDA".
This update consists of cleanup and stability fixes since 0.3.0.
Changes:
* stability fixes (resource initialization & redirect handling)
* rolling clone list
* optimizations in maintenance loop
* test cases
* minor fixes
We are very pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.3.0.
This update consists of stability fixes (see e.g. here), api cleanup work (see the current module import graph), as well as GUI work. See the CHANGELOG. Further information is available on the M∞ ANGEL-APPLICATION Developer Wiki.
One important thing to note: if you are upgrading from an older version, you will have to purge/empty your local repository once before being able to help safeguard MISSION ETERNITY data forever. This can be done with a single mouse-click in the File menu -> "Purge repository".
from rfc3986 import scheme, reg_name, path_abempty
from pyparsing import Literal
host = reg_name.setResultsName("host")
path = path_abempty.setResultsName("path")
URI = scheme + Literal("://") + host + path
And now you've got yourself a validating parser for your reduced grammar. Nice, no? I've added this as an extra module ("notQuiteURI") to netaddress, so you can use it like this:
>>> from netaddress import notQuiteURI
>>> uri = notQuiteURI.URI.parseString("http://host.name.com/path/to/resource")
>>> uri.scheme
'http'
>>> uri.host
'host.name.com'
>>> uri.path
(['/', 'path', '/', 'to', '/', 'resource'], {})
Update: netaddress is now available through the python cheese shop. If you're interested, you should be able to install it by simply typing:
$ easy_install netaddress
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