Re: Gittorent .. avahi ?

From: Srijak Rijal <srijak@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 3, 2007, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID: <4612AEA6.3040706@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2c6b72b30704031125o4335aeefg88ccee163fa27142@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jonas,

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> While the tracker is a very interesting part of GitTorrent, because it
> has a lot of responsibility for 'advertising' new changes, I think the
> client, in itself, would be a hard and big enough project. And as Sam
> said the tracker can be reduced to a simple static file that is
> regularly updated by a cron job or something like that.

Yup. For now, I plan to adhere closely to the spec and get the initial version out :). I agree with Shawn in that letting the tool organically evolve to include new features and bug fixes as required is the best way to go. The avahi idea is a product of me having time to think about the project, but not being able to code :).

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> I made a report about GitTorrent from which you might be able to
> get some info from or at least some overall motivations and
> considerations. However, it is for the much simpler and stupid
> 'initial' proposal, before Sam stepped in and made especially the
> core of the peer wire protocol more scalable. So 'caveat emptor'
> (this especially goes for the more Git related parts).
>
> You can find it at:
>
>  http://jonas.nitro.dk/tmp/foo/gittorrent.html/node38.html
>
> and the whole report at
>
>  http://jonas.nitro.dk/tmp/foo/gittorrent.pdf
>

Great :). Thanks for the link. I think the report will be helpful. I intend to look it over as soon as I get time. School in kinda hectic ATM.

> I really hope your project gets approved.

Thanks, me too :),

Srijak.