> http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html > > Supported by Azureus, among others. We already have an extensive > HTTP/FTP mirror system to leverage. > > I've noticed, after the initial release rush, torrents end up being > quite a bit slower than just downloading from a mirror. Especially on a > less popular arch. (cough ppc cough...) In the past I've just stopped > the torrent, downloaded the iso from a mirror, then restarted the > torrent to help seed. > > It would be nice to just have this happen automagically. That's how Metalink works with clients that also support P2P networks. GetRight supports this w/ metalink, hopefully KGet will eventually along with aria2. Phex also supports it over gnutella. (Sorry for the late reply) > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:40:59PM -0400, Anthony Bryan wrote: > > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:51:20PM +0200, Ruben Kerkhof wrote: > > > > Have you had a chance to look over Ruben's additions? Any feedback? He > > said he re-licensed it to line up w/ mirrormanager. Any ideas/comments > > for features in Metalink that could be of use to Fedora? > > Yes, I took a quick look; I'll be able to do something with this, but > not for the next 4 weeks, as I'm out of the office moving houses and > on vacation, then catching up on real work. :-) checking in after 10 wks :) Will what Ruben submitted be usable? a few more metalink apps have been released. Free Download Manager (Win) has been released under GPL3. DownThemAll 1.0b2 firefox extension is out, and displays more of the info contained in a metalink to the person downloading, like a how many mirrors are listed, logo, description, version, os/arch, and other stuff that could be useful. here are some screenshots the DTA team put up: http://code.downthemall.net/maierman/metalink-test/metalink-feisty.png http://code.downthemall.net/maierman/metalink-test/metalink-xp.png http://code.downthemall.net/maierman/metalink-test/metalink-comment.png there's also Celerius, a GTK python downloader in progress at http://celerius.tuxfamily.org/ if anyone wants to help out. -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads
