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+ username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmkBwMWvNKZZCge_YqobCSILPMeK6xbFw8"
+ nickname="develop"
+ subject="comment 6"
+ date="2013-08-25T08:39:15Z"
+ content="""
+I just did a cursory search on haskell torrent support. And the required pieces do seem to be be there.
+https://github.com/jlouis/combinatorrent or https://github.com/astro/haskell-torrent for downloading. i'm not sure if either supports DHT, but that exists here https://github.com/aninhumer/haskell-dht 
+
+That said, i think implementing this would require some quite major overhauls in the system. It probably won't be trivial to implement.
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+Note: This is for straight \"bittorrent\", not for \"bittorrent sync\". Bittorrent sync is closed source, and while an API might come at some point, it doesn't currently exist.
+
+I do seem to recall joeyh talking about supporting further transport protocols(perhaps through hooks). So I'm adding the above links for future reference if this does get implemented.
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+But IMHO, this doesn't seem like a trivial feature to add. It might have to take some refactoring of some core git-annex parts. Certain things have to be changed quite a bit.
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+Currently a git-annex client doesn't really require anything(except rsync) to sync from a remote. With bittorrent with DHT support to share between clients, suddenly git-annex will have to maintain a constant bittorrent thread(maybe multiple) that constantly seeds all the files in the git-annex repository, while waiting for a potential remote to request data.
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+So even if this happens, it is probably gonna take some time.
+
+Just my 2cents.
+"""]]