From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-09-04T00:19:35+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyForge BitTorrents?

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 11:06, James Britt wrote:
> I was just grabbing the latest RC for the Windows 1-click installer, and 
> saw on the download page a large encouragement to use bittorrent to 
> download files.

Yup, right on:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

> However, I didn't see any links to any torrent files, and searching 
> bitoogle.com didn't locate any either.

Hm.... doesn't "BitTorrent" on there contain a link to here?

http://bt.rubyforge.org/

> The usual direct download links were still there, but I'm wondering what 
> would be involved in creating a torrent file and linking to it alongside 
> the regular download links.

Yup, that's a good idea.  I think we're moving in that direction,
although for now I'm still creating and posting the torrents manually...

Yours,

tom