Note: ShakesPeer has not been under any active development since early 2009. We are looking for someone to take over maintenance of this project. If you are interested in such a thing, please send an email to Markus.

ShakesPeer: a DC++ compatible Direct Connect client

ShakesPeer is a peer to peer (P2P) file sharing program. It is a client for the Direct Connect protocol. The main goal of ShakesPeer is to create a fully featured client, compatible with DC++, that runs on Mac OS X with a native Aqua GUI. The program is released as Open Source under the GPL License.

Getting involved

• See the DesignOverview
• See SourceCodeNavigation for information on how the source code repository is organized
• Please click the "Issues" tab at the top of this page to see bugs we need to fix!
• NOTE: The project was migrated to Google Code in May 2008, tickets filed before that are still available here.
• Information on how to submit patches can be found at SubmittingPatches.
• Subscribe to the developer mailing list.
• To be notified of all changes to code, subscribe to shakespeer-dev-changes,

Reporting a bug

If you encounter a bug in ShakesPeer, or have an idea for a new feature, you are encouraged to report this in the ticket system. Be sure to check out the guidelines before reporting a bug, then click here to report a new bug or feature.

Documentation

There is documentation scattered across a lot of places. You can check out the forum for help with various issues or to ask questions. More specifically, the following pieces of documentation have been written by users:

• A guide to ShakesPeer for new users (a bit outdated)
• Setting up a ShakesPeer backend