[Live-demo] Torrents - was build process

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> hi Hrvoje -
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>   this comes up with some regularity.. basically, torrents work well when
> there are many simultaneous downloads.
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> The frequency and volume of OSGeo-Live downloads is not a good fit to the
> Torrent model..
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An advantage of torrents is that torrent clients have a good
capability of resuming an update or redownloading parts which failed.
This are nice features to have when you are on a bad line (eg
developing countries).
If we can manage to keep our torrent seeded the whole time it would
not be such a bad idea, even though it probably won't be faster than a
regular download.

Kind Regards,
Johan