Comment 17 for bug 919424

@eMTee (realprogger): Thank you for pointing me to dcbase.org; I was unaware of that site.

Re. AirDC++, that is indeed one of the clients I'm actively considering switching to, esp. since it's the only one whose developer(s) still seem to be be around to respond to queries and hopefully fix bugs at least (I don't expect new feature addition at this point in any case).

However my one quibble with Air is how its devs prefer to do their own thing with respect to 'standard' DC++ files/formats. For example instead of sticking to a simple, easily parsable and externally editable single Queue.xml file it creates separate 'bundle' XMLs with random names. Or for example in this particular case how the Hash DB issue has been 'solved' by completely dumping HashData.dat and HashIndex.xml and adopting some sort of Air-specific binary (I think) format. Standard files naturally make it easy to move between clients, but the way Air does things seems a bit proprietary and locked-in to me.

That is why I am hoping the DC++ devs will get around to fixing this and a few other big issues at least. If not, I guess Air it will be.