bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Michael Favia]

Luke Macken wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:12:03PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> | 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.
> 
> +1
> 
> If any bittorrent client is to slip into core, my vote is for the
> upstream default.
> 
> | I think the only viable alternative would be azureus really, which is 
> | java-based.
> 
> Azureus is OK, but is a bit feature-bloated IMO for a pice of software
> that just needs to manage downloads (I mean, seriously, do people really
> need an IRC client built into their bittorrent client?).  I think that
> the functionality of the standard upstream gui should satisfy all of our
> core needs.
Agreed about the IRC client but does it allow bandwidth throttling, file 
  priority selection (High, low, dont get), and UPnP router management? 
I haven't used it because azureus has satisfied all my needs just 
wondering what it provided and that rpm looks so far away. -mf