Hi
Sorry for the (very) long delay in getting back to you. Other work has
been overwhelming me, so its taking me this long to get round to
emails.
The problem is with autogenerating the meta-data - the P2P sub-projects
are not directly integrated at the moment with the main mirrors. Files
are distributed via the main mirrors, and .torrent files are generated
from this manually. Ideally this would be automatically done at the
source, and sent to all mirrors, but this would involve considerable
persuasion to install the extra software to get this done, as well as
set up the main tracker for this.
While this is all possible, efforts are being spent elsewhere in the
project, and this will have to wait.
I'm also wondering about the benefits of multiple P2P protocols.
BitTorrent was chosen as we could distribute it via official trackers,
without being associated with P2P that has been used for piracy. The
Open Source nature of BT was also a big plus point for us, as well as
its potential in distributing load. While it may be possible to
integrate other P2P networks, the major foreseeable future load will
come through BT as it is proven in 'just released' situations.
I hope this answers your questions. If there is any confusion please
feel free to post further to the list.
Apologises again for the delay in replying.
Deepankar
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