Remy, excuse me if this is really basic and naïve. I've only used bittorent to download large single wad files...
Would it be reasonable to use bittorent to download *parts* of things? For example, if you look at an entire repo as one file then when you want just one of the artifacts in the file/repo you could appeal to the torrent to get it. Seems that bittorent clients can look for peers that have parts of files so if there was an index saying which artifacts are in what parts of the torent file, a client could just look for the parts of interest and lay them out on disk appropriately. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:equinox-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remy Chi Jian Suen > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:15 PM > To: Equinox development mailing list > Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] peer-to-peer downloads (ECF) > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Scott Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Good point :). ECF does have a bittorrent provider as well: > > > > CVS > > > /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ecf/providers/org.eclipse.ecf.provider. > bittorrent > > which depends upon > > > /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ecf/incubation/plugins/org.eclipse.bitt > orrent > > Correction, this should be > /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ecf/providers/org.eclipse.bittorrent. > > Although I think I need to change this around to be > org.eclipse.ecf.protocol.bittorrent like the MSN implementation. > > Regards, > Rem > > > > > The URL protocol type is specified in the provider plugin as > 'torrent' > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > > equinox-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > equinox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev
