Those interested in taking Josh up on his quest of producing a bittorrent external might check out the conspicuously named "libtorrent" from the guys at Rasterbar. I use their luabind library for all my lua external needs and it works great.
http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/ -- cb On 12/6/06, Josh Mellicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oops, I probably forgot to mention the app is delivered by download :-) So yes, the application will be installed with everything it needs to run, but it needs to download the stuff first. And with QT movies and separate files, I have a list of stuff to download, just trying to figure out the best way to structure it. Speaking of downloads, I probably posted this before, but I would like to offer a generous bounty for anyone who would like to either: 1. write a bittorrent client in Rev (or Rev external) 2. write or alter (license permitting) a "faceless" bittorrent client (in whatever language) that announces download status either in a text file or sockets On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:25 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Josh Mellicker asked: > >> What is your vote? >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> 5. none of the above > > > 6: The application is installed with everything it needs to run. > Updates can come in over the wire later, but once the installer has > run it's ready to go, right then and there. You'd be surprised how > many folks download installers and run them later, and later might > be on a train or a plane or a spaceship to Mars. Why punish the > affluent traveling customer when you could be catering to that > desirable demographic instead, for the low cost of a convenient > experience for everyone else. > > When updates are checked, all user interface elements are able to > be updated. The splash screen is a user interface element, and as > subject to change as anything else, so the only thing in the > standalone is an error dialog which no one should ever see unless > Something Very Bad happens during install, in which case the user > won't be able to see anything other than the first card of the > mainstack anyway -- might as well make it count. If boot goes well > I can hide that and move on to load the rest of the components. No > UI in the standalone means all UI can be updated. > > I guess if this needs a name we could call it "Complete Install > with Anchor Stack". > > I'm sure there's a 7, 8, 43, 1544, and more, but #6 is just what I do. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site > ___________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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