[Web] Proposal: add BitTorrent links to Qt Project downloads page.
Tomasz Siekierda
sierdzio at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 12:59:01 CET 2013
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
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