bittorrent support

[Mathias Panzenböck]

On 04/26/2010 09:09 AM, Casper van Donderen wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:53:53 +0300, Mark Kretschmann<kretschmann at kde.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't know, the "just delegate to scripts" approach has bitten us
>> before. We tried that with Transcoding in 1.x, and that was mostly a
>> giant failure. What we ended up with was a fragile, complicated, and
>> not really portable system.
>>
>> Some things should be integrated properly (with a BitTorrent library,
>> certainly not by calling some binary), or not done at all.
>
> Not to drag this in a whole different league, I've not really been
> involved lately (sorry), but is 2.4 still going for the Windows support?
>
> Then it might be convenient if there would be a ktorrentpart or equivalent
> (ktorrent works pretty well on Windows).
>
> If that part is in KDELibs it should be easy to integrate the torrent
> stuff.

ktorrent supports magnet links. If they could make this into a kioslave (and
if there would be a magnet-link feed instead of a feed with .bittorrent files),
then amarok wouldn't need to do anything and would support torrents out of the
box.

	-panzi