Thread: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)
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Serge is offline Serge
2007-12-09 , 20:19
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#48
Originally Posted by pipeline View Post
Yes, i can see how thats important for a project like mplayer... and i appreciate your no-compromise approach to development!
Well, I did not want to press on your for sure, sorry. My only intention was to get a stable and well packaged Transmission package for OS2006 eventually (maybe after OS2008 package stabilizes).

As you don't have any OS2006 device to test it, I think that having the sources available with a reproducible way of building .deb packages is the only solution to get stable packages for all IT OS versions (so that other people can contribute to development).

Since i no longer have an OS2006 device to test on (or vm with which i could target it), i don't know if the bora build would work on there but perhaps since the app depends on gtk it is very OS-specific. Assuming bora build doesnt work on OS2006, someone with a gregale SDK scratchbox environment might try downloading the source code and doing standard :
OS2007 package starts and runs on OS2006. It just has some glitches, so building a "native" OS2006 package specifically tuned for Nokia 770 might be a good idea later. For example /media/mmc2 is not a good choice for Nokia 770 as it only has a single memory card slot mounted at /media/mmc1...

My setup package is likely unorthodox to linux purists such as yourself, so honestly anyone who would have a use for it would probably pick better file system structure.
You never know For me the most important requirements are: it should work, do the job well and have somebody who supports it, everything else is secondary. Thank you for taking care of all this job building maemo packages and providing support for them. Reinventing wheels and hijacking somebody's else projects is not fun for me. There are lots more interesting things to do

I'm just interested in having a good torrent client for internet tablets, so will try to help as much as I can in the case of troubles.

BTW, the problem with routers mentioned as "Fix router errors caused by sending too many tracker requests at once" might be also somewhat related to epoll issue which needs 'EVENT_NOEPOLL=1' workaround. Probably OS2006/OS2007 also does not behave well under high load with many simultaneous connections. Who knows.
Last edited by Serge; 2007-12-09 at 22:47.