Qtorrent

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Mon Jan 17 15:59:42 PST 2005


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:45:25 +1000, Warren  
<shinjii at virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> wrote:

>> > Torrent trackers seem to change the versions of software they require
>> > rather frequently and the error messages are often somewhat obtuse.
>> > It may be that the qtorrent author hasn't caught up with recent
>> > changes.
>>
>> qtorrent is getting quite old and uses a stone-old snapshot of  
>> bittornado
>> as backend to boot. Chances are that qtorrent just doesn't work right  
>> with
>> python-2.4, in which case it's probably time to look for a different
>> client.
>>
>> This is btw offtopic on freebsd-current, please mail ports issues to
>> freebsd-ports (moved there).
>
> id gladly look at using something else, but i dont see any other torrent
> program that  has a GUI interface, but i could be wrong.

There are severals, even orignal BitTorrent. bittorrent, bittorrent-devel,  
bittornado, gnome-btdownload, azureus and goes on.. Unless, you are  
talking about QT, then I don't know.

http://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=longdescription&query=torrent&num=28

Cheers,
Mezz


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