Bug#575895: maybe switch from transmission-gtk to something based on libtorrent, e.g. deluge-gtk?
Fabian Greffrath
Version: 1:2.28+6
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
it seems that libtorrent (i.e. the rasterbar flavour) is becoming the
de-facto standard bittorrent library under Linux, so I'd like to
suggest to switch from transmission-gtk (which uses its own library)
to some alternative using libtorrent, e.g. deluge-gtk.
furthermore, I've read but not yet confirmed that transmission clients
are being blocked from some trackers, because of severe bugs in
libtransmission.
Cheers,
Fabian
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Josselin Mouette
> it seems that libtorrent (i.e. the rasterbar flavour) is becoming the
> de-facto standard bittorrent library under Linux, so I'd like to
> suggest to switch from transmission-gtk (which uses its own library)
> to some alternative using libtorrent, e.g. deluge-gtk.
I’m very skeptical about this:
* Transmission is very fast and has a low memory footprint, which
is something I wouldn’t expect from a Python client.
* The transmission UI fits well into GNOME, and on first sight the
deluge one doesn’t look as light and polished.
> furthermore, I've read but not yet confirmed that transmission clients
> are being blocked from some trackers, because of severe bugs in
> libtransmission.
I’m using transmission regularly and I have yet to see this happen. It
is actively developed and I wonder whether those bugs are still here in
the latest version.
OTOH I saw such bans happen with e.g. rtorrent.
Cheers,
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Charles Kerr
> de-facto standard bittorrent library under Linux
libtorrent-rasterbar is a good library, but I haven't seen any evidence
of it becoming the de-facto standard. openSuSE recently switched to
Transmission from Monsoon. Mint, Mandriva, and Crunchbang all switched to
Transmission from Deluge.
> furthermore, I've read but not yet confirmed that transmission clients
> are being blocked from some trackers, because of severe bugs in
> libtransmission.
You're probably referring to <http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1242>.
What happened is that 1.90 and 1.91 were banned after 1.92 was released,
so that users would have an easy upgrade path.
A similar thing happened to Deluge and libtorrent-rasterbar -- your
suggested replacement -- when the same trackers banned
Deluge 1.2.0 and libtorrent 0.14.8 for an overdownloading bug.