From: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2004-11-17T03:34:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC9 with RubyGems built-in

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:32:54AM +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:
> > Speaking of downloads, I tried to download the installer 
> > (probably shortly afret it was released) and my Azureus could 
> > not find a usable source. So I went ahead and got it the old 
> > way using http.
> > 
> > It probably takes some days before the torrent propagates enough.
> > 
> > Is there a mirroring script one could use to mirror torrents 
> > automagically?
> 
> Sorry about that - usually I:
> 
> 1- set up the new torrent on http://bt.rubyforge.org/
> 2- start a headless downloader there
> 3- when I get home that night, start up my bittorrent client and
> download it and leave it running
> 
> I think this time there was a window when there wasn't a headless
> downloader running and I hadn't started my home machine client yet, so
> there weren't any peers that weren't behind firewalls, if that makes
> sense.
> 

Actually it downloaded a few kilobytes and then stopped. So I think
something was running but it was overloaded. On the other hand,
downloading the previous version of installer was several times faster
than http.


Thanks

Michal Suchanek