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This question comes from not much experience with the bittorrent protocol, but what would it take to use something like this to build an open clone of btsync?

• josephagoss 12y ago
  I wonder if it would be easier building an open source version of btsync 1.4 as 2.0 seems to be a lot more complicated?
• gillianseed 12y ago
  Isn't syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing, supposed to be an open source alternative to btsync ?
  • aw3c2 12y ago
    It lacks some features (public shares for example) but works pretty well for personal syncing. It does not use torrents.
  • Nux 12y ago
    Sort of, Syncthing it's pretty nice.
• pbnjay 12y ago
  I also have very little low-level bittorrent experience, but the static nature of .torrent files would be tricky. You'd need some sort of snapshotting diffs to convert to .torrent equivalents at regular intervals, right?
• rakoo 12y ago
  As pbnjay says, torrents alone can't be used because they target static content. I'm currently building an OSS alternative of btsync at https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare. Basically you can use a torrent to transfer content, but you need to transfer the new torrent itself some other way; I use bittorrent's extension capabilities to do that.