Distributed downloading

[Patrick Mézard]

Le 04/08/12 04:11, dukeofgaming a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to the list and I thought I might start with a crazy idea.
> 
> When I was teaching some of my colleagues about DVCS one of them asked if
> it could be possible to download from different sources at the same time
> (since I made the somewhat innacurate analogy of DVCS being to CVCS what
> FTP is to BitTorrent).
> 
> I've thought about it for a while and I think it is actually a good idea.

"Good" who knows, but:

  https://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/

> Do you think this is remotely possible?, what about something in alignment
> with the philosophy/community?, I think partial downloads would be a
> requirement for this —which probably is a completely separate
> implementation/feature— but I think this would be something interesting to
> discuss.

Maybe, but at this point it is rather up to you to show that 1) you understand how Mercurial network protocol works 2) have a good idea how to tweak it to achieve your goals.

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Patrick Mézard