[Kget] [Bug 124010] Metalink 3.0 support in KGet for multithreaded downloads (mirrors/P2P)

[Ant Bryan]

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------- Additional Comments From albryan comcast net  2006-08-12 07:54 -------
Maybe the other two open source (GPL) Metalink clients could be helpful for adding this feature to KGet 2. aria2 & wxDownload Fast are both written in C++.

aria2 (Unix) supports Metalink & BitTorrent from the command line -
http://aria2.sourceforge.net/

wxDownload Fast (Mac/Unix/Win) is an open source download manager that supports Metalink.

Speed Download (Mac) supports Metalink in a beta version -
http://www.yazsoft.com/

OpenOffice.org uses Metalinks for downloads at
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html

A few more clients & sites are preparing to use Metalink.

Metalink @ Packages Resources (http://metalink.packages.ro/) provides
automatically generated Metalinks for various projects along w/ source in Perl. It would be easy to automatically generate .metalinks for new releases of KDE that contain all the mirrors & checksums in a single file.