From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 23:59:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC5C16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:59:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao09.cox.net (lakermmtao09.cox.net [68.230.240.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39A343D2F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:59:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by lakermmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20050117235939.CHBW1713.lakermmtao09.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:59:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:00:30 -0600 To: Warren References: <200501172358.13311.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <5f67a8c405011710571d280068@mail.gmail.com> <200501172114.37610.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <200501180945.25535.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200501180945.25535.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54u1 (Linux, build 892) cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qtorrent X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:59:42 -0000 On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:45:25 +1000, Warren 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 -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org