On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:57:09 +0600 Mike Kazantsev <[email protected]> wrote: > It won't work in a separate (from compilation) thread as it does with > current (non-scm) fetchers, but it already isn't async for scm exheres > and checksum verifications.
We're going to make scm async at some point. That's not entirely trivial to do for things that aren't Git, though. > And fetching from stuff like bittorrent in general will greatly > benefit from being parallel for all distfiles needed, because time to > bootstrap download from a magnet link should be longer than to find a > mirror and download the whole file from there. > > Performance aside, having bittorrent fetcher as exlib can have a > benefit that sha1 hash, currently passed only to for checksum.exlib, > can be used to produce a magnet link as well, so all exherbo users can > be used as an "exherbo mirror network", provided the link will be > passed to some long-running daemon (like transmission), not oneshot > leecher. Let's ignore bittorrent. It doesn't make any sense to use it. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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