I've hacked BitTornado such that it has become almost a one click
dowload program. Unfortunately I forgot to pack it with gdiplus.dll,
so it is not working on all Windows pc's. As I am writing this, I
don't have access either to gdiplus, so I cannot currently fix it.
Hope to have it done this evening, or find a way to make wxPython
independent of gdi+.
Bryan
On 3/4/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/4/07, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I
recommended against that on the basis of the frequent and incessant
advocacy of BitTorrent as a cure all for our bandwidth related issues,
and that we couldn't have a better fit for BitTorrent than this
application.
Wouldn't offering it as both be a good way to see what users will prefer?
Users would probably prefer the http/ftp download link option. It's
simple, easy and fast.. at least it is so long as we have enough
bandwidth to support it.
I don't believe that anyone thinks otherwise. But user preference is
irrelevant if the cost of bandwidth causes us to choose to not make
such things available.
The open questions are: 1) can we continue to support large files with
our existing model and 2) what alternative exist and what are their
limitations.
A lot of the bittorrent software is fairly buggy, ... after the time I
spent on it today I would have much rather forgone the BT software and
worked on something else... but I do think that it is important that
we gain some concrete and direct experience with it.
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