On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 12:34, James Britt wrote: > Does anyone have, or know of, snake-simple instructions on how to host > large files in a public server, making them available only through > bittorrent. I followed the docs in the Python BT implementation (http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html), and there's a guide to it here: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/guide.html > I poked around, and can see how to make a torrent file, and then get > that torrent file to a tracker, but I gather from this that the target > file is expected to be available form my PC, and only when I run a > bittorrent client. I want to serve the files form ruby-doc.org, not my > home box. Yup, per Ari's email, you can run a BT peer on ruby-doc.org itself. > I expect that I will need to run a tracker on the server hosting the > files. Is this what RubyForge does? Yup, right on. I suppose you could simply use RubyForge's tracker; that should work, I think. > This is off-topic for Ruby in general, but handy info as large > Ruby-related files become available. BT is good stuff. Ikkei and I are working on a BT Ruby library here - http://aversa.rubyforge.org/ - so look for more BT jibber-jabber in the future. Yours, Tom