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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:02:55PM +0100, Ingo Kletti wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2017, 09:49:41 schrieben Sie:
> > No plans currently. Do you think enough people would use them for it to
> > really work?
> 
> I have no idea and, as far as I understood the concept of torrents, you could 
> not tell the number of downloads, just a sum of Bytes transferred (provided 
> the tracker server keeps a record of this).
> 
> Using torrents to distribute KiCad was an idea that came up today since the 
> next stable release is only a few days away and providing torrents could 
> probably remedy the hammering of the server during the first days.

Agreed, if people would actually use them it'd be a decent way to
lighten the server's load. I wouldn't mind it myself, certainly, but
then I'm not a packager

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ingo
> 
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