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

[Humaneasy Consulting]

Right, right. It was a dumb question :)

2006/1/13, Jeffrey Leung <curriegrad2004 at gmail.com>:
>
> 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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