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

[Mitch Curtis]

On Monday, January 07, 2013 12:59:01 PM Tomasz Siekierda wrote:
> 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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Could be a good idea. CCing to the release mailing list since this list seems 
to be kinda dead.