[Development] Qt Project Missing Infrastructure

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday, 29 de October de 2011 08:27:34 Tomasz Siekierda wrote:
> Using Torrents might take some load off Nokia, while making the download
> process more reliable, and less prone to errors (as torrents check hashes
> for every part of the download). It would work flawlessly for standard
> releases, but might be tricky for the SDK, as it downloads packages for
> itself.

We discussed that and, while it may take some of the load off, it will not be a 
complete solution. Many corporate users are behind very draconian firewalls 
that will not let torrents through. And even if the firewalls do allow, there's 
a question of whether torrents are permitted by the company's network 
policies.

So we must offer HTTP too and use a CDN for that. Nokia already has this set up 
for the current system...

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