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

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