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

rtorrent supports DHT and encyption. Set

encryption = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry
in your config file. rtorrent is usually considered better than
transmission by most torrent sites.

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:36 PM, hiro <23hiro_AT_googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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