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Adrian Macneil wrote:
> On 10/06/06, Subredu Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Yes please, that would be great. The sha1 and tth hashes would be easy
>> to generate, I'm not sure about the ed2k ones, I read that they are
>> similar to MD4, but there should be a program to generate them.
ok. I'll do some research first, and I'll test the script with our
mirror of openoffice.
> The generation of the magnet and ed2k links ? If not, can you be more
> specific ?
>
>> Yeah. A script would be just as useful, but integration into a
>> mirroring tool would be even better.
I already think to that. But from the OpenOffice point of view, it
shouldn't provide many advantages, since Simba is a mirroring tool.
Simba integrated with metalink, should be usefull only if the
institutions who do mirroring for OpenOffice are using Simba, and you
want to give them control over the generated metalink files. This
approach has a lot of duplicated data, and to keep the mirrors list in
sync with all institutions is kind of difficult (IMHO).
I think this leaves place for further discussions.
> 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.
>
>> I believe Mike is in charge of that.
Is mike subscribe to the list ?
I think that OpenOffice will definitely be the best project to support
metalink, since you can give users only one file instead of 4-6 url's
(like now). After all, metalink is, from the users point of view, all
about simplicity and elegance.
>> I thought he was already on the distro list. Sure thing.
I don't know for sure, but is better to have him in Cc until we know
for sure that he is subscribed to the list.
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