Hi Dennis, *, On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > I read somewhere, and I don't know where, that ASF did not want torrents to > be used. > I'm guessing that the issue is related to ensuring the integrity and >authenticity of > packaged releases.
That doesn't make sense - integrity is assured by bittorrent by providing sha1sums for each chunk. And authenticity can be assured just like it is with regular releases - just include a corresponding signature file within the torrent. > I may have dreamed it or I am mixing this up with something else. If those were the only reasons, then they were made-up arguments. But bittorrent only makes sense for larger files anyway. ciao Christian
