On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:59:26PM -0400, Anthony Bryan wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Tatsuhiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 15, 6:24 am, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > from what I remember when this came up before, the filename in a > > > multi-file torrent should match the filename in the metalink (here > > > <file name="example.file">). I know this isn't too flexible but I > > > think it can be made to work for most cases now. > > > > > > Tatsuhiro, any ideas for improvements? perhaps a file or files > > > attribute for bittorrent URLs? > > > > Yeah, if all file under files element matches to the content of > > torrent file, adding torrent attribute to files element might make > > things clear. But that seems very torrent specific. > > Personally, I don't like the way of multi-file torrent which treats > > many files as a single and hashing it into pieces. As said earlier in > > this thread, it requires that to checking a piece hash, more than 1 > > file is needed sometimes. It makes things unnecessarily complicated. > > here's what I think would work: > > 1) use a single file torrent.
not feasible really. The convenience of multi-file torrents is too much to pass up. > 2) the filename in a multi-file torrent should match the filename in > the metalink (here <file name="example.file">). > > 3) add a file attribute to <url>s of type="bittorrent" so you can > select one file out of a multi-file torrent > > <url type="bittorrent" file="Fedora-11-i386-disc1.iso" > preference="100">http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-11-i386-CDs.torrent</url> This could work for me. -Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
