From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T00:34:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby BitTorrent

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:18, Simon Conrad-Armes wrote:
> On Nov 4, 2004, at 1:53 PM, gabriele renzi wrote:
>  From the page: "Aversa is a little utility for creating and viewing 
> BitTorrent metainfo files."

Yup, that's all the current release does.

> Maybe some useful code, but I think what be even more useful was an 
> actual package. I was thinking along the lines of the following feature 
> set:
> 
> - completely isolated library or backend
> - off-line mode (run in background)
> - front-end can reconnect to backend
> - upload/download cap (max upload setting)
> - queueing (max downloads at a time)

Right on!  A full client, a full tracker... all that good stuff.

> It would be cool if the backend serviced frontends through DRB.

Sweet!

Tom