kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Does it also work with the OSDN mirror?

tor. 1. okt. 2020 02.42 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi all,
>
> I recall we had this discussion before about providing torrent files for
> release downloads to reduce the slowdown related to rush traffic. it didn't
> go far mainly because of resources needed to maintain separate torrent
> seeding infrastructure.
>
> I recently discovered that p2p torrent protocol supports webseeding, a
> feature that allows torrent clients to download chunks of files from
> standard http/ftp servers. It's implemented by most major torrent client
> software. This way the file is initially seeded by the http server but as
> more and more peers get the data the swarm takes over most of the traffic
> load.
>
> I tried it out and it works nicely with kicad's existing http download
> resources so there is no need to have separate infra for torrents!
>
> Would you be open to adding this?
> All that is needed is put .torrent files either on kicad website or even
> better, on the https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/ server next to the
> installers and add a link to them.
>
> I've generated torrents with webseed information for 5.1.7 here:
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/torrents-for-kicad-stable-version-5-1-7-win-and-osx/16609/14?u=qu1ck
>
> To do it yourself in the future is trivial, here is the bash script I used
> to create the files:
>
> for f in *.exe ; do
> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList
> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/windows/stable/
> done
> for f in *.dmg ; do
> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList
> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/
> done
>
> It depends on create-torrent utility that you can get by running "npm
> install -g create-torrent"
>
> I can also make a merge request on the kicad website if someone will
> upload the torrent files to the s3 server.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>