Re: [GMG-Devel] Bittorrent

[Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross]

On 16/01/13 00:24, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> My interest in bittorrent is mainly because of a few useful podcatchers
> (Miro, Banshee, etc) support it, and it's a way to reduce costs for
> people running audio/video podcasts, etc.  Do any applications support
> tribler relatedly?

Yes. Tribler is backwards compatible. Others using say transmission can 
transfer to & from Tribler

> Anyway, a plugin for MediaGoblin on Tribler is welcome if you want to
> write it!  Maybe you could help adoption in this way.

My plan is to do a non-evil decent digital video distribution biz (bye 
bye tv, amazon, hulu, netflix, youtube rent, bappletunes, etc). I expect 
I will use mediagoblin. So it looks like this newbie is going to be 
leaning python on the job. I doubt very much that my skills (my current 
level is html,css,bash) would be good enough to write a Tribler plugin 
any time in the upcoming years. Then there is other things. Anyway there 
is the wait for Tribler to be more suitable for a server. I would raver 
get on with what I can with the biz to make money and provide bounty for 
anyone who wants to make a Tribler plug-in.

> In the meanwhile, bittorrent support is not a high priority, but it is
> somewhere on my stack of things I'd like to see because of the above!
>
> Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross writes:
> > Please don't put your efforts into legacy bittorrent, put your effort
> > into supporting Tribler! Tribler is 100% decentralized, backwards
> > compatible, FLOSS and bit of a resource hog :). Currently lacking
> > software for servers because it needs the GUI but its on there todo list.

Sorry if I sounded hash. I'm just fed-up with projects keenly putting 
there precious effort into old bittorrent not future bittorrent.

Oh and BTW in a future version of Tribler it will be anonymous and have 
faster transfer at the same time! There was a talk about it.