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

[Gregory Wild-Smith]

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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