bittorrent in core? what frontend?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Dec 15 16:12:03 UTC 2005


Alexander Larsson wrote:
> At some point in time we in the desktop group discussed shipping
> bittorrent and a nice frontend in fedora core. Since more and more
> people start to use this as a standard way of distributing software
> (e.g. fedora core itself uses this) it really should be supported in a
> default desktop install, so that when you click on a torrent file in the
> browser something "nice" happens.
> 
> What are peoples opinions on this?
> 
> Another question is what frontend to use as a default. bittorrent itself
> ships with a wxPython based frontend (bittorrent-gui, availible with
> bittorrent in fedora extras). Another frontend is gnome-bt
> (http://gnome-bt.sourceforge.net/) which is designed more like a simple
> *.torrent mime handler rather than a full bittorrent app. Ubuntu
> defaults to this i think.
> 
> I packaged gnome-bt at:
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.noarch.rpm
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/gnome-bt-0.0.22-1.src.rpm
> 
> I don't use bittorrent all that much. What do people think about these
> two frontends? Are there other interesting ones?

Upstream bittorrent stopped using wxPython at 3.90; the current -gui 
package used in bittorrent 4.x is pygtk2-based and I don't see any 
advantages that gnome-bt has over it personally.

I think the only viable alternative would be azureus really, which is 
java-based.

Paul.




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