bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Paul Howarth]

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.