[Live-demo] Torrents - was build process

[hbogner]

@Brian

Why wouldn't OSGeo-live be a good fit for the torrent model???
Please elaborate because I don't see your point as clear as you.

It's few large files which you have to check after downloading to see if 
there are any download errors, while torrent checks it automatically.
There are torrent files containing few KB of data, and there are those 
containing tens or hundreds of GB of data, so OSGeo-live fits in.
There are torrent file with more and less frequent updates than OSGeo-live.

LibreOffice offers torrent files:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/?type=win-x86&version=5.0&lang=en-US
Debian offers torrent files:
https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/
Ubuntu offers torrent files:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/trusty/
Fedora offers torrent files:
https://torrents.fedoraproject.org/

The list goes on ...

@Johan

Yes it wouldn't be so fast as regular download, but I offered both, 
regular mirror and torrent files that could be seeded from few machines, 
and anyone can also help with those.
If there is a regular download I prefer wget on hi speed link, but 
prefer torrent on slow links, and always seed if there is a torrent file.

Many people run away from torrent because it sometimes gets associated 
with piracy, but it's just a protocol for data distribution and can be 
used for good things like this.

So why not also offer torrent with regular download? One doesn't cancel 
another.

Regards
Hrvoje

On 03.12.2015 08:48, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
>> hi Hrvoje -
>>
>>
>>
>>    this comes up with some regularity.. basically, torrents work well when
>> there are many simultaneous downloads.
>>
>> The frequency and volume of OSGeo-Live downloads is not a good fit to the
>> Torrent model..
>>
> 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
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