[Kget] [Bug 57591] please handle bittorrent protocol

[Dario Massarin]

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------- Additional Comments From nekkar libero it  2006-09-15 11:26 -------
On Thursday 14 September 2006 21:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> How is libtorrent-based support coming in the work/make_kget_cool branch?
> Still alpha and/or will we see it in KDE 4.0? Felix or Dario?


The ktorrent code is really good, and already provides a good decoupling 
between the gui code and the torrent code. We already asked Joris how to 
import it in kget and it turned out that from his point of view the best 
choice was to copy the torrent code inside kget (and thus creating a whole 
new kget plugin) and keep it up to date with ktorrent. Now, as you know, 
ktorrent hasn't been ported to KDE4 yet, so I guess he is going to do this 
work somewhen after this has happened.

Speaking about the libtorrent vs ktorrent comparison, ktorrent seems easier to 
maintain because we will have its author working directly on kget, it would't 
need any extra library dependency and the code itself is already based on Qt. 
So, from this point of view, it seems a better solution. I don't know, as of 
now, how libtorrent and ktorrent differ in performance and memory usage, but 
even here, I suppose that having Joris from our side could put us in a good 
position to improve stuff, whenever necessary.

Anyway, the libtorrent plugin is there and could be easily further developed, 
if someone cares. We could even have both of them.. So if someone is 
interested in improving the libtorrent plugin, your help would be 
appreciated :)

Best regards,
	Dario