RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] peer-to-peer downloads (ECF)

["Jeff McAffer" <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Remy, excuse me if this is really basic and naïve.  I've only used bittorent
to download large single wad files...

Would it be reasonable to use bittorent to download *parts* of things?  For
example, if you look at an entire repo as one file then when you want just
one of the artifacts in the file/repo you could appeal to the torrent to get
it.  Seems that bittorent clients can look for peers that have parts of
files so if there was an index saying which artifacts are in what parts of
the torent file, a client could just look for the parts of interest and lay
them out on disk appropriately.

Jeff



> -----Original Message-----
> From: equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:equinox-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Remy Chi Jian Suen
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:15 PM
> To: Equinox development mailing list
> Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] peer-to-peer downloads (ECF)
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >  Good point :).  ECF does have a bittorrent provider as well:
> >
> >  CVS
> >
> /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ecf/providers/org.eclipse.ecf.provider.
> bittorrent
> >  which depends upon
> >
> /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ecf/incubation/plugins/org.eclipse.bitt
> orrent
> 
> Correction, this should be
> /cvsroot/technology/org.eclipse.ecf/providers/org.eclipse.bittorrent.
> 
> Although I think I need to change this around to be
> org.eclipse.ecf.protocol.bittorrent like the MSN implementation.
> 
> Regards,
> Rem
> 
> >
> >  The URL protocol type is specified in the provider plugin as
> 'torrent'
> >
> >
> >
> >  Scott
> >
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