Re: Implementing idea for GSoC 2013 - Transfers App

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:42 PM, M.S. Suraj <[email protected]> wrote:
> About the bit-torrent protocol support, I asked about yesterday, I would
> like to ask again if it will be added to Transfers as part of its features
> as Download Manager or will it again be implemented as D-Bus interface in
> existing bit-torrent clients with notification in Transfers.

I think the decision will be the same for every case. Transmission
uses gtk+ and is a very awesome torrent client/UI. IIRC it already
even has a D-Bus interface so it might be possible to either modify
that for our needs or add another one to it.

> For former, I
> couldn't find any good bit-torrent libraries based on C ( only
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libbt/ which again is outdated). I found
> some good C++ based libraries, particularly libtorrent which has lot
> features and is still being developed.

Yet another reason to implement this in apps then.

> Could I also know who will be the mentor(s) for this project?

The wikipage say ebassi so I guess him? It seems you are already in
contact with him too.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124