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 package database and I'll transfer
> ownership. Think carefully before you act though!
>
> Dead Upstream:
> ==============
> Well, not actually dead but upstream has gone closed-source as of
> version 6 so it's effectively dead.
we use it as the official torrent server for
torrent.fedoraproject.org we have
not found any other servers that work totally for us. if we are getting rid
of it we should also look as using something else for the torrents we provide.
A nice thing to have is something that we can use with ipv6 and ipv4, the
server that torrent.fp.o is on has both
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 and while not fancy, it is straightforward to understand.
-sv