Hardly the ideal client for a "Desktop". I think a desktop user would expect a more interactive user interface than bitflu provides.
There are a lot of BitTorrent GUI clients, surely one of them would be usable on Solaris? [1] Unfortunately, the Java clients all seem to be SWT based, which would be difficult to maintain long term. This is where the Python based clients appear to be most appropriate, they are cross-platform and we already have much of the infrastructure on Solaris. You say that BitTorrent is CPU intensive on Solaris - I'm sure that with some digging we could figure out why this is and may be contribute a fix back, and in the shorter term patch it - this certainly would be more acceptable as a desktop client. Thanks, Darren. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_software Andras Barna wrote: > bittorrent eats a lot of CPU on x86! > as I said before bitflu (http://bitflu.workaround.ch/index.html) does the job! > it has telnet and http interface too! > > regards > > On 5/3/07, Harry Lu <Harry.Lu at sun.com> wrote: >> Bart Smaalders: >>> So.... >>> >>> Given the difficulties of incorporating the swt libraries needed >>> to make Azureus work on Solaris, what other BitTorrent client should >>> Solaris incorporate? >>> >>> - Bart >>> >>> >> As Dennis said, http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/bittorrent , this >> one looks promising. >> >> >> We will evaluate it to see whether we can integrate it into JDS. Sorry I >> haven't used it before. Is its GUI based on pygtk? >> >> Harry >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
