On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Odd-rationale<oddrationale@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Christian Jäger <christian.jaeger@rub.de> wrote:
Hi,
Am Samstag, den 08.08.2009, 23:27 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:
During one of the last few meetings, it was decided to move to transmission, but the meeting was not well-attended. Luis, what is the end word?
I didn't attend the meeting but I sure hope it's Transmission from now on. :-)
Greets, Chris
Wasn't one of the problem of including Transmission was the DHT support?
According to this ticket (http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2222), it seems that Transmission has DHT support as a compile-time option. Does that mean if I want Transmission *with* DHT, I would have to compile it myself or get it from a non-official repository?
As for Monsoon, it appears from the MonoTorrent blog that DHT support would be available as an addin, but simply disabled by default (http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2009/05/monsoon-blowing-down-barriers.html). This seems much simpler to me.
If it's policy to disallow DHT, wouldn't that preclude shipping Monsoon with a "click here to enable DHT" option? On the other hand, if that option *is* allowed and desirable to the opensuse-gnome team, I can revisit #2222 and make DHT a run-time option instead of a compile-time option. After all, the entire point of #2222 was to make Transmission more useful to SUSE and Novell. Regardless, the compile-time DHT / no-DHT choice is available right now in a released, supported version of Transmission. The Monsoon blog entry says that the "addin" option for DHT is a work in progress which will be included in a "preview release". That blog entry is two an a half months old...
However, it is quite obvious that Monsoon is not as feature rich as Transmission, or at lest not yet.
I really like Monsoon because I think it was quite some potential, and that Mono technology is pretty cool! And I like Transmission because it is lightweight and was more useful features.
I like Monsoon too, though of course I'd like to see Transmission as the default client. A couple of months ago I did a shootout between various BitTorrent apps, including Transmission and Monsoon. Here are the results: http://pastehtml.com/view/090621g11KlBWM.html Transmission uses half the memory of Monsoon.
In the end, I am not a big torrent user and I can easily live with either client, or install the client of my choice.
Just my thoughts. Thanks!
Thanks, Dariel cheers, Charles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org