Why not BitTORRENT? -- Was: [wp-testers] Nightly Builds/WinZip Replacement

[Jeffrey Leung]

You'll have to remember that the entire WordPress 2.0 Package is less
than a megabyte. Creating a torrent for this would cost about 20 to
30K of diskspace, and since there are lots of people volunteering to
mirror the WordPress 2.0 Package, bandwidth consumption shouldn't a
issue with the distrubition.

On 1/12/06, Gregory Wild-Smith <greg at twilightuniverse.com> wrote:
> Because the files are pathetically small, and you'd have to get a new
> torrent every night.
>
> Much less practical as well, it's just not the kind of use that
> bittorrent is useful for.
>
> -- Greg
>
> Humaneasy Consulting wrote:
> > As someone already said Nightlies are for developers and testers. This
> > mailist is for testers.
> >
> > I also think that a little effort is the least we can do to help them
> > not waist more money with ZIP downloads and ZIP diskspace. For me I
> > would make more effort if they put it in RAR or Z or BZ2 just to allow
> > them to spend a little bit less money.
> >
> > Hey! Why not Bittorrent[1] the all thing. With that ALL of us will pay
> > a little to download nightlies
> > .
> > BlogTorrent[2] isn't so hard to install and use.
> >
> > Azureus[3] is a nice client that work wherever JAVA works.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > Lopo
> >
> > [1] http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html
> > [2] http://www.blogtorrent.com/
> > [3] http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
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