Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 07/14/2011 01:07 PM, seth vidal wrote: googling around gets me info on how magnet links work. Now, what tools do we have in fedora to generate them and the Distributed Hash Tables. Sorry for the delay again. There's no tool required. As long as you know the hash of the torrent you can make

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-07-14 Thread seth vidal
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 22:23 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:55 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to do it. The

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-07-14 Thread seth vidal
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 00:22 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 06/15/2011 09:55 PM, seth vidal wrote: Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to do it. Late to the party with this

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-25 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:55 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to do it. The biggest virtue of the old bittorrent client is that it is

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-22 Thread Paul Howarth
I have now retired bittorrent in git, pkgdb and comps, and have filed ticket https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4783 to have it blocked in koji since there were no real objections. Anyone that would like to breathe new life into it is welcome to take it. Paul. -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 13:12 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: I believe Mandriva solved this problem by having transmission obsolete bittorrent-gui and just shipping the console version. Yup. We did. Exactly nobody complained. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-16 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 07:12:56 AM Paul Howarth wrote: I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer ownership. Think carefully before

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer ownership. Think carefully before you act though! Dead Upstream: == Well, not

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Howarth
On 06/15/2011 01:37 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer ownership. Think carefully before you act though!

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 06/15/2011 01:37 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer ownership. Think carefully before you act though!

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Misha Shnurapet
15.06.2011, 21:37, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net: My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available.  I currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen.  Can someone with experience with any of them offer a recommendation?  Python, C and C++ clients especially.  

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jon Ciesla writes: My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available. I currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen. Can someone with experience with any of them offer a recommendation? transmission-cli works for me. transmission should be sufficient to

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available.  I currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen.  Can someone with experience with any of them offer a recommendation?  Python, C and C++

Re: Proposal: retire bittorrent

2011-06-15 Thread Jon Ciesla
15.06.2011, 21:37, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net: My only concern is that there be a command-line replacement available. šI currently fetch my ISOs with bittorrent-curses and screen. šCan someone with experience with any of them offer a recommendation? šPython, C and C++ clients especially.