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Adrian Macneil wrote:
> Sorry about that, we really need to get auto-magnet links sorted, it
> is currently a very manual and boring process to create them.
do you want me to create a perl script for you ? :D
>
> This wouldn't be very hard, the magnet and ed2k links are a very basic
> format, all that is needed is a few different hashes (sha1, tth, and
> ed2k) for the files and some proper formatting. Is there any way this
> could be integrated into simba?
The generation of the magnet and ed2k links ? If not, can you be more
specific ?
>
> Magnet and ed2k links would tie in very nicely with metalinks, because
> the distributed p2p networks are good at supplementing download
> mirrors, but usually aren't strong enough to rely on by themselves
> (although both magnet and ed2k links support the inclusion of external
> http and ftp sources, this makes the link several lines long).
> However, support would be needed from a few of the main p2p programs
> to make it a success.
Very true. You, as a major project in the OpenSource world have a lot
to say. Maybe you can talk with the teams behind wget, lftp, kget,
you_name_it. I really think that metalink has great potential.
Also, if you are willing to further help metalink, can you provide me a
file with the mirrors list for OpenOffice ? I toked the web page with
mirrors and made some perl script to parse it and extract the
information I needed. This method is not a very good one, since I want
to have all the time the updated list of OpenOffice mirrors, and now
this is not possible. I guess that you have a database with all the
official mirrors of OpenOffice.
Also, if the OpenOffice project will support metalink I have no doubt
that other projects will follow. All that metalink needs is support and
popularity from a "trusted source".
PS: I added anthony in Cc . Please don't forget to add him in our reply.
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> Adrian
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