Re: [gnome-network]Bittorent Support in Gnome(-network)

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:21, Manuel Clos wrote:
> Mark Finlay wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:49, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > 
> >>It would have to be a half-ass implementation of bittorrent. Like, you'd
> >>have to do the download only. The "download manager" is just going to
> >>use gnome-vfs. So, if there's a vfs module for downloading stuff from a
> >>URI, it will work with the manager.
> > 
> > 
> >>From what little i understand of bittorrent it does the uploading while
> > you are downloading and to get any decent download speed you need to be
> > upload-enabled ...
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> If the (download manager) daemon listens to the bittorrent port, then it 
> can check current bittorrent downloads and decide what to do. I see no 
> real problem since the daemon will catch the upload petition and if it 
> is going to upload, it can trhough gnome-vfs (provided there is a module).
> 
sorry if it's a stupid question, but I'm ignorant as I said on
BitTorrent. Would it be possible to have all this in a gnome-vfs
backend?

cheers