Re: [dev] Suckless BT client(s)?

From: hiro <23hiro_AT_googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:36:54 +0200

rtorrent's features are more than sufficient for most of us. It's not
particularly "suckless", but it's ok for me. DHT is working, but I
don't know about encryption and all that other fancy stuff...
It can automatically add torrent files copied to some kind of
listening-directory

On 5/4/10, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter_AT_plaetinck.be> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:09:22 +0600
> mikhail maluyk <mikhail.maluyk_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at transmission.
>>
>
> i think rtorrent is "ok". lightweight, but lacks some advanced
> features such as webseeds.
>
> Personally i prefer support for DHT, webseeds, encryption and
> whatnot.
>
> i just had a look at transmission, using it with its ncurses interface
> seems to be pretty similar to rtorrent, except that it has
> more features.
>
> furthermore it
> * supports the xdg basedir spec (i hate things that pollute my ~)
> * has a socket protocol
> (http://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/doc/rpc-spec.txt)
>
> but i wonder:
> * does it have an event reporting/hooks system? so that i can execute
> scripts/code when a torrent completed, stalled, is added, ...
> * does it automatically update its own configuration? i hate it when
> programs do that.
>
> Dieter
>
>
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