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The intuition is people who don’t want ‘live' TerraSync use bitTorrent or something like terrasync-fs / a script to pull the entire scenery from a mirror, and hence don’t have much need for a management tool.<ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/35150641/</ref> | |||
We need *some* free option (Torrent being the obvious established one that won’t even cost ‘us the project’ anything to offer, despite my general reluctance to push non-technical people to what is inevitably a malware-riddled experience)<ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/37109395/</ref> | We need *some* free option (Torrent being the obvious established one that won’t even cost ‘us the project’ anything to offer, despite my general reluctance to push non-technical people to what is inevitably a malware-riddled experience)<ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/37109395/</ref> | ||
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Background
The intuition is people who don’t want ‘live' TerraSync use bitTorrent or something like terrasync-fs / a script to pull the entire scenery from a mirror, and hence don’t have much need for a management tool.[1]
We need *some* free option (Torrent being the obvious established one that won’t even cost ‘us the project’ anything to offer, despite my general reluctance to push non-technical people to what is inevitably a malware-riddled experience)[2]
So while 16k EarthView textures are lovely, we should definitely figure out a hosting + delivery method which is opt-in, and doesn’t overload our current we-get-it-for-nothing providers :)
(And indeed Bittorrent might be one solution)[3]
Idea
Prototype
We need to actually write a prototype, using libtorrent (or whatever is $sexy these days). Which would be welcome, just keep in mind it has to be a library solution we can ship as part of FlightGear, including on macOS and Windows: which means no weird malware installation or Windows Firewall warnings about us looking like malware...[4]
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