Posted: Sun 19 Feb 2012, 19:17
Jemimah if you provide the details in a PM I can set it up for you.
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No one was really very interested in working on it.ocpaul20 wrote:Did anything happen to this?
Torrents are only good in situations where you have alot of people who wnat the same file and are willing to share it for a long period of time.ocpaul20 wrote:I think Torrents are the way forward but there is no easy small application which runs in the background and notifies the user when the package is ready for installation.
This is true, and would be helpful for distributing ISOs, its really doesnt make sense for distributing 10mb packages. How often do you really need to pause and resume a 10mb download?ocpaul20 wrote:As I understand it, the beauty of peer-2-peer is that
a) you can stop downloads and pick them up later - since the downloads come in many "containers" of information.
Again I doubt you're going to have many people all downloading the same package at the same time... so the load isnt going to be spread around. And most people arent going to continue to 'seed' the package one they get it and install it. Remember Puppy for the most part is focusing on people with minimal hardware, they arent going to want a torrent client running on their machine all day long.ocpaul20 wrote:b) the downloaded "containers" are shared amongst the peers while the peers are leeching which spreads the load (since the "containers" dont HAVE to come from the original download source seeder)
Well we'd have to run our own tracker most likely. It's not hard, i just dont think its the best option.ocpaul20 wrote:c) not sure how trackers come into it yet.
Client side:ocpaul20 wrote:OK, so if p2P is not the answer, then maybe the small XML files could be the component which allows people to search and select for the package they want.
We would have to define a format which would provide us with fields for all the information we needed.
In my mind, the difficulty would be getting the package uploader to fill in the required fields so that as a whole, it made sense when it was combined with all the other entries which other people had made for their uploaded packages.