Bug#575895: maybe switch from transmission-gtk to something based on libtorrent, e.g. deluge-gtk?

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 30 mars 2010 à 10:44 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : 
> it seems that libtorrent (i.e. the rasterbar flavour) is becoming the 
> de-facto standard bittorrent library under Linux, so I'd like to 
> suggest to switch from transmission-gtk (which uses its own library) 
> to some alternative using libtorrent, e.g. deluge-gtk.

I’m very skeptical about this: 
      * Transmission is very fast and has a low memory footprint, which
        is something I wouldn’t expect from a Python client. 
      * The transmission UI fits well into GNOME, and on first sight the
        deluge one doesn’t look as light and polished.

> furthermore, I've read but not yet confirmed that transmission clients 
> are being blocked from some trackers, because of severe bugs in 
> libtransmission.

I’m using transmission regularly and I have yet to see this happen. It
is actively developed and I wonder whether those bugs are still here in
the latest version.
OTOH I saw such bans happen with e.g. rtorrent.

Cheers,
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