On 05/08/2015 06:12 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > On Fri, 08 May 2015 17:21:15 +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: >> On 05/08/2015 04:46 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: >> >>> To what end? Is this to help GIMP users in some way >> >> It helps them to get download speeds that are reasonable, even if many >> (or actually, the more) people download the files at a given time. > > Mirroring would help too. There are plenty of services that provide > that without messing with the content. We do that. And the torrent files make use of the mirrors - they have lots of web seeds each, so the client will download from many, if not all, mirrors in parallel. Unless it finds other peers, of course. The fact that a simple approach - just creating a torrent file with the right settings and not having to setup anything on the server side - allows for that was another contributing factor to consider the use of Bittorrent. And at the time we ran the initial checks, we were in a locked-down university network (LGM 2014 at Leipzig university), and while the Bittorrent ports themselves were blocked there, the web seed downloads worked just fine, because they use HTTP. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
