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Both qBittorrent and deluge both already fill this open source, minimalistic libtorrent space. There's actually over 20 other GUIs for libtorrent.[1] I've tried
by lbenes 13y ago
Both qBittorrent and deluge both already fill this open source, minimalistic libtorrent space. There's actually over 20 other GUIs for libtorrent.[1] I've tried most of them and we don't need yet another µtorrent 1.6 imitator based on libtorrent.
We needs more developers to help optimize the libtorrent library so it can download as fast as utorrent and help fix some of the core bugs and memory leaks. In addition, there is still no open source replacement for Bittorrent Sync or streaming torrents. Yes, some clients allow sequential downloading, but this is bad for the health of the swarm.
Like most open source projects, it's easy to find GUI developers and hard to find volunteers to work on the difficult problems.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libtorrent#Applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libtorrent#Applications
- tlarkworthy 13y agogenerally I find the libraries are good and the GUIs suck in open source, but I totally agree with you that in the torrent space its reversed. weird.
- wslh 13y agoDoes libtorrent include Bittorrent Sync or streaming? If not how much effort ($$$) is to add them?
- steeve 13y agoI'm using rasterbar's libtorrent for a project of mine and I find it already downloads as fast as uTorrent (likely because it implements uTP).