[Scummvm-devel] More demos on demos.php & Wiki ?

[Max Horn]

Am 13.02.2007 um 13:04 schrieb Henry Bush:

> I was thinking about this issue just yesterday: does anyone think that
> creating a torrent of all the scummvmable demos might be useful?
> Obviously not to replace the current system (not everyone wants *all*
> the demos), but it might ease the load on whichever poor unsuspecting
> server is called upon to host them.

I don't see how creating such a torrent would make that easier --  
somebody would have to start the torrent in the first place, and for  
that assemble all the demos in a single file, then distribute that to  
clients ("leechers"). If instead that person had uploaded the demo  
archive directly to the server (once), he'd been done a lot quicker,  
and would have saved lots of bandwidth, too.

And as you pointed out yourself, most people will want to download  
one specific demo, not all at once.

So all in all, I don't really think that such a torrent would be very  
useful. Just my two cents, of course!


Bye,
Max