Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 07/14/2011 01:07 PM, seth vidal wrote: > googling around gets me info on how magnet links work. Now, what tools > do we have in fedora to generate them and the Distributed Hash Tables. Sorry for the delay again. There's no tool required. As long as you know the hash of the torrent you can mak

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-07-14 Thread seth vidal
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 00:22 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 06/15/2011 09:55 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both > > tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to > > do it. > > Late to the party with this

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-07-14 Thread seth vidal
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 22:23 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:55 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > > > Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both > > tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to > > do it. > > > > The biggest virt

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-25 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 06/15/2011 09:55 PM, seth vidal wrote: > Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both > tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to > do it. Late to the party with this response but here it is anyway. I'd suggest switching to magnet links. T

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-25 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:55 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both > tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to > do it. > > The biggest virtue of the old bittorrent client is that it is simple, > stand  alone a

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-22 Thread Paul Howarth
I have now retired bittorrent in git, pkgdb and comps, and have filed ticket https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4783 to have it blocked in koji since there were no real objections. Anyone that would like to breathe new life into it is welcome to take it. Paul. -- devel mailing list devel@

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 13:12 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > I believe Mandriva "solved" this problem by having transmission obsolete > bittorrent-gui and just shipping the console version. Yup. We did. Exactly nobody complained. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-16 Thread Jon Ciesla
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 07:12:56 AM Paul Howarth wrote: >> I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the >> reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over >> instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer >> ownership. Think carefully

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 21:08 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 07:12:56 AM Paul Howarth wrote: > > I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the > > reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over > > instead, please apply on the packag

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 07:12:56 AM Paul Howarth wrote: > I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the > reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over > instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer > ownership. Think carefully before

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
> 15.06.2011, 21:37, "Jon Ciesla" : >> My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available. >> šI >> currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen. šCan someone >> with experience with any of them offer a recommendation? šPython, C and >> C++ clients especially. šI've

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available.  I > currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen.  Can someone > with experience with any of them offer a recommendation?  Python, C and > C++ clients especiall

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jon Ciesla writes: My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available. I currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen. Can someone with experience with any of them offer a recommendation? transmission-cli works for me. transmission should be sufficient to rep

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Misha Shnurapet
15.06.2011, 21:37, "Jon Ciesla" : > My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available.  I > currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen.  Can someone > with experience with any of them offer a recommendation?  Python, C and > C++ clients especially.  I've searched,

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
> On 06/15/2011 01:37 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: >> >>> I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the >>> reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over >>> instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer >>> ownership. Think carefully before you

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Howarth
On 06/15/2011 01:37 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: > >> I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the >> reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over >> instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer >> ownership. Think carefully before you act thou

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
> I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the > reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over > instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer > ownership. Think carefully before you act though! > > Dead Upstream: > == > Well,

Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Howarth
I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer ownership. Think carefully before you act though! Dead Upstream: == Well, not actually