Re: [gnome-network]Gnome BitTorrent Mini-Client

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Mark Finlay wrote:
> I disagree, because bittorrent is different too all the existing p2p
> networks. There is no search function in the bittorrent network - it's
> all url/http based. Because of this it make more sense being downloaded
> from a browser than a traditional p2p program.
>
> I really like the Gnome BitTorrent Mini-Client and hope it can be
> integrated into gnome-network/downman

It uses python, I don't know if this is a problem for going into 
gnome-network.

I've looked at bittorrent, which is also written in python. There are 
ports to other langs, but I have not checked the btports yahoo group.

Basically we only need the client part of bittorrent, so it should look 
like this:

You add the .torrent link to the transfer manager, then it contacts the 
tracker, identifies itself and asks for peers to download from. For 
(better) performance, it should allow connections to a tcp port in the 
(bittorrent typical) 6881-6889 range. You contact peers (bittorrent 
protocol again) and start downloading / uploading. From time to time you 
contact the tracker for more peers.

Needed (easy) things are:
	- some GUI so that the user can limit upload speed since this does not 
happen with normal transfers.
	- tell how much time we are going to upload: download time only, other ...

I don't see this as a gnome-vfs module, but built into the transfer 
manager. Of course the transfer manager will use gnome-vfs to do the 
http transfers anyway, but the protocol/messages logic should go into 
the transfer manager daemon.

If anyone has an idea for putting the logic into gnome-vfs it will be 
great :)

This isn't very complicated, but I want to concentrate on the bug list I 
sent related to gnome-vfs, before starting any bittorrent work.

Any volunteer?

If I get time, I will give it a try since it looks very interesting.

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Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net
http://llanero.eresmas.net