[Twisted-Python] File Transfer/BitTorrent

Thomas HERVE therve at free.fr
Thu Jul 7 16:10:47 EDT 2005


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Quoting glyph at divmod.com:
>> 1) Is there some people interested in BitTorrent client/server with 
>> Twisted ?
>
> I'm sure lots of people would be interested in a bittorrent protocol 
> implementation for Twisted :).  I know of at least 2 aborted 
> attempts; I don't know if either ever produced any code.

I don't know if it's good news or not... I don't have time to make it 
alone from
scratch, so any piece of code would be welcome.

>> 2) If not, does a draft/standard exist of good file transfer protocol, that
>> could be done with Twisted ?
>
> Personally I'm writing a different file-transfer protocol which might 
> meet your requirements; it's called "sigma" and it's going to be 
> based on a lower-level peer-to-peer system called Q2Q.  Watch this 
> space: http://divmod.org/projects/q2q
> for more information in the next couple of days.

It seems really promising ! I really enjoyed your slides :). I had a 
quick look
at q2q code and it seems pretty evolved yet. I'll try further in the 
next days,
if you need help (tests ?) I'm your man.

-- 
Thomas







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