gTorrent, a Bittorrent client for Gnome / News: Recent posts

gTorrent is now known as Deluge, and is available here: http://code.google.com/p/deluge-torrent/

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I posted this on ubuntuforums.org a few hours ago, but basically gTorrent is getting close to a first alpha. The client runs, it downloads, and it can download multiple files at once. Unfortunately, there is no way to control the download, where it is saved to, cap the download speed, etc. Yet.

Our engine, which is a Python wrapper class for libtorrent, does support these things, they just haven't been implemented yet.... read more

gTorrent has successfully completed it's first bittorrent download. Sort of. The engine that we are using (A Python wrapper for libtorrent) works on the commandline, and my job this weekend is to work on integrating that into the GUI. After that is done, I'd think we're close to our first alpha release.

We now have a second developer on the project. Kripken will be helping me create the backend for gTorrent. At the moment, we are considering reusing the torrent engine from either the official bittorrent client or using libtorrent with python wrappers.

I'll post a new screenshot shortly. Hopefully we will make some progress in the near future.

Nothing has been happening here lately, as I've been on summer vacation for the past month or so. I hope to start working on gTorrent again very soon, and will post the first (nonfunctioning) release soon. As soon as I can figure out the underworkings of bittorrent, I will work on making gTorrent a fully functional client.

So here it is. This has been in disscussion for a few days on ubuntuforums.org, and I am indeed working on it. My other project, carputeros, has been delayed for the moment.

Right now, I'm focused on building a bittorrent client for Gnome. You'll be welcome to try and build it on other D.E.s, but I won't make any guarantees. Sometime after Python 2.5 or 2.6 comes out, I'll likely rework the interface using wxWidgets, allowing for porting to other environments, and also Windows and Mac OS X. But I'm getting ahead of myself, I need to make the program work first, and that is the focus of the 0.0.X branch. No flashy features, just good old fashioned downloading.