You'll have to remember that the entire WordPress 2.0 Package is less than a megabyte. Creating a torrent for this would cost about 20 to 30K of diskspace, and since there are lots of people volunteering to mirror the WordPress 2.0 Package, bandwidth consumption shouldn't a issue with the distrubition.
On 1/12/06, Gregory Wild-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because the files are pathetically small, and you'd have to get a new > torrent every night. > > Much less practical as well, it's just not the kind of use that > bittorrent is useful for. > > -- Greg > > Humaneasy Consulting wrote: > > As someone already said Nightlies are for developers and testers. This > > mailist is for testers. > > > > I also think that a little effort is the least we can do to help them > > not waist more money with ZIP downloads and ZIP diskspace. For me I > > would make more effort if they put it in RAR or Z or BZ2 just to allow > > them to spend a little bit less money. > > > > Hey! Why not Bittorrent[1] the all thing. With that ALL of us will pay > > a little to download nightlies > > . > > BlogTorrent[2] isn't so hard to install and use. > > > > Azureus[3] is a nice client that work wherever JAVA works. > > > > Best, > > > > > > Lopo > > > > [1] http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html > > [2] http://www.blogtorrent.com/ > > [3] http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wp-testers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >
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