Bug#457633: transmission: Option to bias towards downloading chunks in file order

2007-12-29 Thread Philipp Benner
Upstream decided to not implement this wishlist bug. Charles wrote: On the surface this sounds like a good idea -- in fact, some older versions of Transmission did a variation of this -- but in practice it can cause very unhealthy swarms. I don't think this is a good idea for Transmission. I

Bug#457633: transmission: Option to bias towards downloading chunks in file order

2007-12-23 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: transmission Version: 0.96.dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist I'd like to have an option to, given a choice between multiple equally useful chunks, bias towards requesting chunks from earlier in the file. Ideally, if transmission always has its choice of chunks and can keep saturating available