Sparkle VS libtorrent

* i use appimagelauncher[1] to integrate with my menus etc but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't? i haven't really figured out the rhyme or reason

[0] https://sparkle-project.org/

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks checking every 5 mins is a little bit excessive!

Seeing as it's macOS only is there even any reason to roll your own update mechanism when you can use the Sparkle framework [1]?

[1]: https://sparkle-project.org/

The bucket contains dmg files and an appcast.xml that allows for updates. I'm using the auto_updater package, which in turn uses the popular Sparkle library.

Our build process is automated using fastlane. That handles building and testing the app as well as signing, notarizing and uploading to Amazon S3. We distribute via a link on our website -- Callisto. Updates are handled using Sparkle. We have a custom built appcast generator as part of our website that reads the S3 bucket and builds the feed that Sparkle uses.

Something like Sparkle but for Node.

I had a longer answer, but qBittorrent is great and has a great webui/server model if you're running a separate linux box to run it in. If you're on windows, grab 4.3.9 or 4.6.2 with libtorrent 1.x. RSS stuff is nice too. Libtorrent 2.x has issues on Windows currently (read these threads if you want to know more - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/7013 - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/6667#issuecomment-1804035311 ). Please don't bug Arvid about it though. Libtorrent 2.x gets us Bittorrent v2, which is a good thing.

Latest libtorrent v1.2 branch changelog: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/RC_2_0/ChangeLog

You can support this feature by writing a comment in https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/7252

Where users could finally download files that were present in other swarms. This would decentralize network more, swarms with valuable files wouldn't die fast, even when updating a torrent, where info hash differs, say tv series, adding new episode, all the previous seeds of swarm could contribute bandwidth and resistance to new swarms, there were nice proposals at libtorrent project (library which many clients we know use), as f.e. not announcing that a peer has files to not overwhelm network, but announcing that he wants them.

How much of it do you want to do yourself vs how much do you want to use pre-made libraries for? Many popular clients rely on libtorrent which is a C++ torrent library: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent

FWIW, it seems like there'll be an update to libtorrent very soon that'll address the memory issue.

Here is a link to an issue I found on the libtorrent repo discussing the issue.

Many!

https://webtorrent.io/faq

Notable ones include Libtorrent[1], Peertube[2], and their own Webtorrent Desktop[3].

1. https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/223

2. https://peertube-viewer.com/posts/2021-02-20-peertube-viewer...

3. https://webtorrent.io/desktop/