Does it also work with the OSDN mirror? tor. 1. okt. 2020 02.42 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>:
> Hi all, > > I recall we had this discussion before about providing torrent files for > release downloads to reduce the slowdown related to rush traffic. it didn't > go far mainly because of resources needed to maintain separate torrent > seeding infrastructure. > > I recently discovered that p2p torrent protocol supports webseeding, a > feature that allows torrent clients to download chunks of files from > standard http/ftp servers. It's implemented by most major torrent client > software. This way the file is initially seeded by the http server but as > more and more peers get the data the swarm takes over most of the traffic > load. > > I tried it out and it works nicely with kicad's existing http download > resources so there is no need to have separate infra for torrents! > > Would you be open to adding this? > All that is needed is put .torrent files either on kicad website or even > better, on the https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/ server next to the > installers and add a link to them. > > I've generated torrents with webseed information for 5.1.7 here: > https://forum.kicad.info/t/torrents-for-kicad-stable-version-5-1-7-win-and-osx/16609/14?u=qu1ck > > To do it yourself in the future is trivial, here is the bash script I used > to create the files: > > for f in *.exe ; do > create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList > https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/windows/stable/ > done > for f in *.dmg ; do > create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList > https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/ > done > > It depends on create-torrent utility that you can get by running "npm > install -g create-torrent" > > I can also make a merge request on the kicad website if someone will > upload the torrent files to the s3 server. > > Regards, > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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