I've added that link to our ideas page too. we find out this Wednesday if metalink is accepted into gsoc! if we do, then it'd be great to have you as a mentor.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Peter Poeml <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:18:45AM -0400, Ant Bryan wrote: >> >> last call for mentors, I need to apply by Fri. right now I only have >> Neil listed as a mentor. > > I now I am late... > I could help out as mentor, if we are in the game. > > Incidentally, I just entered a project idea into the openSUSE wiki a > minute ago, but it isn't openSUSE specific in fact, and could be a > metalinker GSoC project as well: > > http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Integrate_a_download_manager_applet_into_software.opensuse.org > > I looked at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/web/gsoc-ideas > directly after that, and realized that it has a very similar idea > already! (Scroll down to "Browser Based Metalink Download Client") > I also learned about DLApplet for the first time now. > > (Sorry for not looking there earlier, my mistake) > > If that works, it could be a wonderful way to implement an easy and > reliable download for large files through metalinks, without native > support in browsers, and without requiring the user to install anything > (or even know about it). > > Thanks, > Peter > -- > Contact: [email protected] (a.k.a. [email protected]) > #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net > Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure > > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH > Research & Development > -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
