bittorrent in core? what frontend?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Dec 20 17:01:34 UTC 2005
Sean wrote:
> On Tue, December 20, 2005 7:30 am, Paul Howarth said:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
>
>>Which version of bittorrent are you using? Looking at the code, it looks
>>to me that the update-checking code is only enabled for Windows and OSX
>>unless the DEBUG flag is set.
>
>
> I haven't looked at the code but it is definitely coming up with an update
> notification. I'm using bittorrent-4.2.1-1.fc5 and it reports that 4.2.2
> is available.
>
>
>>I now share the view that the new version check should be disabled.
>>However, I've so far been unable to provoke the client into telling me
>>about a new version, even though I've got an old one installed, so it's
>>difficult to test any patch I make (which will certainly need testing
>>since I'm not a python programmer).
>
>
> If you remove or rename your ~/.bittorrent directory, the notification
> should pop up the next time you start the client.
Indeed it does. I've done a quick patch, which seems to fix it for me at
least. We'll see when 4.2.3 comes out ;-)
Paul.
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