[mnet-devel] mnetget/BlockWrangler/ how do i download a file?

[rob kinninmont]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:27:16PM -0400, icepick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:53:20PM -0700, rob kinninmont wrote:
> > So I'm very happy to report that mnet doesn't explode when I try to
> > publish a file anymore! yay!
> 
> Are you using w32?  What build env are you using?  

yep!

I'm still using the mingw32 env I've had set up for a while.  ( I didn't need to change it, so didn't (yet) ... )

I just pulled out your updated head and did build_ext -i -f -c mingw32

of course, I can't tell (yet) whether it _actually_ publishes it, since I can't download it anywhere....

but it doesn't segfault there anymore.

(although it has segfaulted a few times during shutdown, which I guess is unrelated, but is ne'ertheless somewhat worrying...)

> Known problem.  It used to be BlockWrangler did all the routing for
> downloads, based on info from the MetaTracker.  We decided to move that into
> a Router interface (currently found in ent.py, but this will change shortly).

hmm. I _definitely_ don't want to start any unpleasant discussions, but I am curious as to whether there's a good reason (and what it is) that the blockwrangler had to be ripped out before there was a replacement?

(I'm curious, partly since I'm curious as to whether debugging the blockwrangler would be any quicker than rebuilding things with ent/router. obviously the latter would be better in the long run, but I'd really like to be able to publish and retrieve files sooner rather than later...)

> I want to work on this but it looks like all our metatrackers are down.  I'm
> looking at setting another one up at cryptomonkey.net.  Until then I can't
> code around this.

:-(

> If you want to move forward look at getting download to talk to ent.py and
> ent.py to route queries based on the Metatracker info.

I might, though I have a few other things to deal with before I can sink my head into that space.

cheers,
rob


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