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[Lobster]

I have always found that Transmission worked. Pctorrent is in Woof Alpha 9 but whenever I try to use Pctorrent, I end up downloading Transmission.

I do not use bit-torrent enough to comment further. I want easy.

Will transmission be compiled for Woof (Puppy 5)?
Is there something smaller?
Is Pctorrent easy enough for a Lobster to use?

Stay tuned for the next exciting transmission . . .

[Gedrean]

Transmission 1.70 released.

Was the compiled version the GTK+ or the Qt version?

[Michalis]

Hi, thanks hadn't notice it.

It is the gtk+ version, compiled under 4.1.2 but it can run in any puppy >4.

I'll compile it later today, so stay tuned

[rocketgeeezer]

you're the best!

the 1.6 pet worked like a charm

cant wait for 1.7!

thx a lot

[Michalis]

Transmission updated to version 1.70, compiled under 4.1.2 it must work with every puppy 3, 4 and 5(woof).

Thank you rocketgeeezer for your good words that's a support to continue compiling it.


New features:

All Platforms
Distributed hash table (DHT) support for public torrents
Add option for moving and finding a torrent's data on the disk
JSON RPC messages can be ~85% shorter, saving bandwidth and CPU
When available, use the system's copy of libevent instead of building one
Automatically pause torrents when verifying
Fix small bugs and memory leaks

Web Client
Big speed improvements, especially with large torrents
Fix 1.61 bug that broke adding torrents via the web client
Add the ability to upload multiple torrents at once
Torrents added by URL were always paused, regardless of preferences
Comments and announce addresses were cut off in the inspector
The "data remaining" field wasn't updated when the number reached 0
Smaller design adjustments

GTK+
Fix intltool build problem
Make it clearer that the status bar's ratio mode button is a button
Torrent comment box did not scroll, so long comments were partially hidden



New version gave me smaller size executables so I suspect they did a code clean-up.
Propably could make it even smaller by using --disable-nls but I support multilinguality, so such an accion is out of question.

Tried to compile the qt client but even thougth nothing was missing it gave me to many mistakes. I managed to hack the code and overcome couple of them but at the end they were to many. I won't try it again before the next release, so anyone who can is welcomed to contribute.

I see that they are updating also the 1.5+ brunch but I've decided to go on with the leading egde version, except if anyone needs 1.5+.

Any feedback always is welcomed

[rocketgeeezer]

michalis, you did it again!
1.7 works perfectly with 4.2.1 on my fit-pc (geode). thx!

just one question: what is the last (cut down extras) pet?

regards, rg

[Gedrean]

Not to bug for a bugfix release, but 1.71 released a few days ago, some fixes to GTK+ client.

At your leisure.

[panzerpuppy]

These bugs are pretty serious:

Fixed in 1.71:
----------------
All Platforms

* Fix 1.70 bug that caused high CPU use in high-peer swarms

GTK+
* Fix crash when the OS's stock mime-type icons are misconfigured
* Handle very long torrent file lists faster


Can't wait for 1.71

[Michalis]

Sorry for the delay but the summer is tempting me to keep much time away from my computer

Transmission updated to version 1.71


New features:

All Platforms:
Fix 1.70 bug that caused high CPU use in high-peer swarms
Fix 1.70 build problems with DHT and libevent

Daemon:
Fix watchdir issue on OSes that don't have inotify

GTK+:
Fix 1.70 intltool build problem
Fix crash when the OS's stock mime-type icons are misconfigured
Handle very long torrent file lists faster

Web Client:
Fix 1.70 bug where some torrents appeared to be duplicates



From this version and on you'll need the updated intltool package since transmision wants version>0.40. Maybe some of you you have intltool>0.40 but in puppy 4.1.2 in which I compiled it I didn't.

[Michalis]

[Michalis]

Seems like 1.70 has many bugs, anyhow:

Transmission updated to version 1.72


New features:
1.72 (2009/06/16)
- All Platforms
+ Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tv->tv_usec >= 0"
+ Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tr_peerIoSupportsFEXT( msgs->peer->io )"
+ Better DHT announce management
+ Fix error in reporting webseed counts via RPC
+ Better file preallocation on embedded systems

- GTK+
+ Fix 1.70 crash when setting options in the Properties dialog
+ Fix a rare crash in desktop notifications
+ Can now sort the file list by priority, download, and completeness
+ Adding a torrent from a browser sometimes didn't work.
+ Various usability improvements

- Daemon
+ Remote didn't always send the right Encoding header in requests

[panzerpuppy]

1.73 is out.

[Cooleech]

Anyone "brave" enough to make dot pet of new Transmission 1.73?

[panzerpuppy]

Transmission 1.74 is out:

All Platforms

* Better data recovery in the case of an OS or Transmission crash
* Upgrade DHT to version 0.8
* If a data file is moved, stop the torrent instead of redownloading it
* Fix bug that didn't list some peers in the resume file and in PEX
* More helpful torrent error messages
* DHT now honors the bind-address-ipv4 configuration option
* Fix Debian build error with miniupnpc
* Fix Cygwin build error with strtold
* Update to a newer snapshot of miniupnpc

GTK+

* Fix crash that occurred when adding torrents on some desktops
* Synchronize the statusbar's and torrent list's speeds
* Fix the Properties dialog's "Origin" field for multiple torrents

[Gedrean]

Michalis, it would be awesome if you could post what default configure options you use to build these packages, or what steps are used, so that later versions (that are compatible with your packages) could be uploaded by other users.