Hi Stephen, On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:28:07PM +0100, Stephen Judge.net wrote: > > I just received the press release from John McCreesh about the next version > of Open Office being available. He pointed out in the release that you can > download OOo via P2P. This I am keen to do, I prefer to use P2P for > downloading open source software as it helps spread the software across the > internet and it reduces the download demand on the projects bandwidth.
Nice to hear :-) > Although when I went to download OOo via P2P I was a bit confused. Under > the BitTorrent section, there are download links for OOo 2.2.0 but in four > different RC's. Yes, the list of torrents is automatically generated based on what files are on the mirror-network. > So download link is the same as the one being announced in > the press release and available to download through the main download page. I don't understand this one. > I only want to download the most recent stable release. I think this should > be clearer. The 2.2.0rc4 is identical to the 2.2.0 (apart from the filename of the download) > While on the P2P page for Magnet and Meta links there are only links for OOo > 2.1.0. So my point is, when a press release goes out about a new release > available for download, you should first check that all your download > sources are up to date, and they are all making the same download version > available. Yes, that the page was not fully updated is an error that we should try to avoid the next time. > For the moment I am not going to use the P2P method for downloading as I am > unsure what version I am getting and I think it is safer to download from > the main download page. :-( - the bt-page lists both the final 2.2.0 as the rcs... > This should not be the case though. I would like > to download via P2P in the future, but please make what I am downloading > clearer and have some continuity across the download sources. I'm pretty sure you downloaded it already, but I hope this makes it somewhat clearer... ciao Christian -- NP: 4Lyn - No Champagne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
