[Web] Proposal: add BitTorrent links to Qt Project downloads page.

[Tomasz Siekierda]

Hello,

I once made a similar proposal on development ML, and I guess it's
time to renew it here: could we please add BitTorrent links to Qt
Project download page? Qt userbase is huge and includes a lot of
people who would benefit from downloading using that protocol. Also,
Qt Project server bandwidth usage may drop. I really don't think more
explanation is needed, but just in case:

Pros:
 - lower bandwidth consumption for qt-project.org
 - .torrent files are typically just several KB in size
 - download will work even if Qt Project site goes down for any reason
(site maintenance, power outage, flood, etc.)
 - users will have the ability to resume their downloads, even after
system crash
 - bittorrent will recover from download errors, while HTTP download will not
 - built-in checksum verification
 - yet another way to share Qt ;)

Cons:
 - company firewalls are likely to block BitTorrent protocol, but
those users will still be able to get regular HTTP download

I can create torrent files and get it to a tracker like
legittorrents.info, and then share them with you, if you want me to
and/ or are too busy to do it yourselves.

Should I CC development mailing list, too?

Here's a link to discussion that made me write this mail:
http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/23447/

Cheers,
Tom