On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:02:55PM +0100, Ingo Kletti wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2017, 09:49:41 schrieben Sie: > > No plans currently. Do you think enough people would use them for it to > > really work? > > I have no idea and, as far as I understood the concept of torrents, you could > not tell the number of downloads, just a sum of Bytes transferred (provided > the tracker server keeps a record of this). > > Using torrents to distribute KiCad was an idea that came up today since the > next stable release is only a few days away and providing torrents could > probably remedy the hammering of the server during the first days.
Agreed, if people would actually use them it'd be a decent way to lighten the server's load. I wouldn't mind it myself, certainly, but then I'm not a packager > > Regards, > > Ingo > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
