Started a topic on gathering a small team of .torrent creators.

My wish is to accelerate FreeCAD download as well as to increase redundancy. Will do this by creating a .torrent file with GitHub web seed as backbone. Members to a small team, that makes sure latest version is served, are wanted. Tasks: When released, download latest version of FreeCAD. Upload Free...

Will do.

triplus wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 7:07 am Sure. Go ahead and keep us posted on the progress.

Will do.

triplus wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 5:36 am ...somebody would have to do it (and after maintain it).

In order to increase redundancy, perhaps there could be a small community-powered team that makes sure the latest p2p-version agrees with the latest www-version?

The messages stay in the outbox until the recipient has opened them. I was off for a day and didn't react to your request. That explains it. Thanks for clearing that up! On topic: Apart from gaining file transfer speed when using modern file distribution methods, what are the drawbacks? Any ideas o...

I specifically told you to ask a moderator to move your existing topic in Open discussion. Not to create an identical one!!! :roll: :roll: :roll: Yes you did. Something went wrong. Every time I sent a PM to the moderator it ended up in my outbox insted of being sent. That's why I went with creating...

BitTorrent does a checksum-check for every pice. Why not distribute via both eMule and BitTorrent?

Hi all,
Noticed download speed wasn't very good, only ~350 kbyte/s. What about adding the option of downloading FreeCAD via BitTorrent?

Hi all,
I wish to compile FreeCAD with custom CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS but have no clue on where to set them. Any ideas? Help much appreciated.