RISC OS Open: Forum: Peer to peer downloads of tarballs

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm

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Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm

Theo Markettos (89) 919 posts

Since the sources are so large, have you thought about making them available via something like BitTorrent? That might save some of your bandwidth costs, assuming there were enough people running torrent servers to make it worthwhile: it'd probably be most help when there's a major release and everyone downloads at the same time. Such a download could always be bandwidth-efficiently updated to the latest version with CVS, so it wouldn't matter if it was slightly out of date. Gnutella is supported on RISC OS by CocoGnut, so that might be a sensible starting protocol. Rather than 'cvs checkout' it'd be something like: Use CocoGnut to download md5sum to verify the tarball untar cvs update Thoughts? (I know nothing of the mechanics of running a p2p server)

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm

Garry (87) 184 posts

Could tarballs be put on Slashdot or something, or maybe the project hosting stuff Google has?

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm

Rob Kendrick (86) 50 posts

Garry (87) wrote: > Could tarballs be put on Slashdot or something, or maybe the project > hosting stuff Google has? Slashdot's a new website, not a file hosting site. Using BitTorrent is the correct solution. B.

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm

Garry (87) 184 posts

Rob Kendrick (86) wrote: > Garry (87) wrote: >> Could tarballs be put on Slashdot or something, or maybe the project >> hosting stuff Google has? > > Slashdot's a new website, not a file hosting site. Using BitTorrent is > the correct solution. > > B. I think I lost control my fingers there, not Slashdot, Sourceforge.

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm

Rob Kendrick (86) 50 posts

Garry (87) wrote: > I think I lost control my fingers there, not Slashdot, Sourceforge. I suspect SourceForge would object to the licence RISC OS's source is distributed under, and tell ROOL where to go. Talking of that: we've still not seen the licence, so all this chat might be pointless.

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Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm Andrew Hodgkinson (6) 465 posts	This topic has been imported from the old forum. Due to its use of fixed format text, you may need to make your browser view wider in order to see posts with the correct layout.

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm Theo Markettos (89) 919 posts	Since the sources are so large, have you thought about making them available via something like BitTorrent? That might save some of your bandwidth costs, assuming there were enough people running torrent servers to make it worthwhile: it'd probably be most help when there's a major release and everyone downloads at the same time. Such a download could always be bandwidth-efficiently updated to the latest version with CVS, so it wouldn't matter if it was slightly out of date. Gnutella is supported on RISC OS by CocoGnut, so that might be a sensible starting protocol. Rather than 'cvs checkout' it'd be something like: Use CocoGnut to download md5sum to verify the tarball untar cvs update Thoughts? (I know nothing of the mechanics of running a p2p server)

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm Garry (87) 184 posts	`Could tarballs be put on Slashdot or something, or maybe the project hosting stuff Google has?`

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm Rob Kendrick (86) 50 posts	`Garry (87) wrote: > Could tarballs be put on Slashdot or something, or maybe the project > hosting stuff Google has? Slashdot's a new website, not a file hosting site. Using BitTorrent is the correct solution. B.`

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm Garry (87) 184 posts	`Rob Kendrick (86) wrote: > Garry (87) wrote: >> Could tarballs be put on Slashdot or something, or maybe the project >> hosting stuff Google has? > > Slashdot's a new website, not a file hosting site. Using BitTorrent is > the correct solution. > > B. I think I lost control my fingers there, not Slashdot, Sourceforge.`

Mar 11, 2007 10:47pm Rob Kendrick (86) 50 posts	`Garry (87) wrote: > I think I lost control my fingers there, not Slashdot, Sourceforge. I suspect SourceForge would object to the licence RISC OS's source is distributed under, and tell ROOL where to go. Talking of that: we've still not seen the licence, so all this chat might be pointless.`