Swirl is an Erlang/OTP implementation of the draft IETF PPSP protocol, under the ALv2 license. It is currently incomplete.

Until the IETF draft status is removed, expect this repo to change quickly and without respecting any version numbers. Bugs are expected, but any reports or even patches would make my day/week/year.

• A modern UNIX system, although swirl will likely run on Windows the compile-time dependencies are more complicated. Please contact the project if you want to build or run on windows support.
• The most recent release of Erlang/OTP available. This is OTP 17.3 at time of writing, and is available from ESL for most platforms. This is strongly advised, instead of using a possibly inconsistent version from your OS packaging system.
• A reasonable level of Erlang and PPSPP knowledge is anticipated.
• If you are developing on / with swirl you will need a pre-built dialyzer plt. If you don't know what this is, just run make plt each time you install/upgrade to a new Erlang/OTP release.

• Use make as usual. It will retrieve depedencies, so internet is needed.
• After building, a stand-alone command, ./swirl starts a simple peer on localhost:7777, without console access.
• make console loads the full erlang application but you'll need to enter either swirl:start_peer(). for a single instance, or read the console help via swirl:help(). to see how to start multiple peers.

• make distcheck cleans all build files out, compiles, and runs all tests, including eunit, common_test, and dialyzer.
• make reindent uses vim to ensure your indentation is consistent.
• more information is available in contributing.md

From a clean git checkout of git://github.com/skunkwerks/swirl.git, just run:

make all console
# erlang console is automatically launched
swirl:start_peer().
swirl:quit().

And here's what a sample session looks like from the above commands:

🌈  dch@akai % git clone  && cd swirl
🌈  dch@akai % make all console
rebar clean
==> git (clean)
rebar get-deps update-deps
==> git (get-deps)
==> git (update-deps)

rebar compile escriptize
==> git (compile)
Compiled src/peer_sup.erl
Compiled src/ppspp_datagram.erl
Compiled src/ppspp_options.erl
Compiled src/swirl_app.erl
Compiled src/swirl.erl
Compiled src/peer_worker.erl
Compiled src/swirl_sup.erl
Compiled src/convert.erl
Compiled src/ppspp_message.erl
Compiled src/swarm_sup.erl

==> git (escriptize)
dialyzer -pa ./ebin -I ./include -r ebin \
		-Werror_handling -Wrace_conditions
  Checking whether the PLT /Users/dch/.dialyzer_plt is up-to-date... yes
  Proceeding with analysis... done in 0m1.02s
done (passed successfully)

erl -pa ./ebin -I ./include -s crypto -smp \
		-setcookie swirl -sname swirl \
		+K true +A 16 \
		-s swirl -s swirl help

Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:64] [hipe] [kernel-poll:true] [dtrace]
Eshell V6.2  (abort with ^G)
(swirl@akai)1>

=INFO REPORT==== 27-Oct-2014::23:34:28 ===
swirl: protocol d-10

=INFO REPORT==== 27-Oct-2014::23:34:28 ===
swirl: version #4e775b9
swirl: online help
use any of these commands, prefixed by `swirl:` to run:

 help().                    these help notes
 start().                   starts the swirl application, but no peers or swarms
 stop().                    stops the swirl application, active peers and swarms
 start_peer().              starts a peer with default port & options
 start_peer(Hash).          starts a peer with defaults and given hash
 start_pool(First, Last).   starts peers on consecutive ports from First to Last
 start_peer(Port, Options). starts a peer with supplied port and options
 stop_peer().               stops a single peer on the default port
 stop_peer(Port).           stops a single peer on the given port
 stop_pool(First, Last).    stops peers on consecutive ports from First to Last
 quit().                    terminates *immediately* the entire BEAM vm


 e.g. swirl:start_peer("c89800bfc82ed01ed6e3bfd5408c51274491f7d4").

 use ^c twice to exit, or type `swirl:quit().` for a graceful shutdown.

(swirl@akai)1> swirl:start_peer().

=INFO REPORT==== 27-Oct-2014::23:34:56 ===
peer: <0.55.0> listening on udp:7777
  options: {options,[{chunk_addressing_method,chunking_32bit_chunks},
                     {chunk_size,1024},
                     {content_integrity_check_method,merkle_hash_tree},
                     {merkle_hash_tree_function,sha},
                     {minimum_version,1},
                     {swarm_id,<<>>},
                     {version,1}]}
{ok,<0.55.0>}

(swirl@akai)2> swirl:quit().

=INFO REPORT==== 27-Oct-2014::23:35:09 ===
peer: <0.55.0> terminating port 7777, using 5936 bytes, due to reason: shutdown

=INFO REPORT==== 27-Oct-2014::23:35:09 ===
    application: swirl
    exited: stopped
    type: temporary
ok
(swirl@akai)3>
🌈  dch@akai %

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