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Ask HN: What is the state of support for mutable torrents?

5•absurdistan•1d ago
BEP 46 was published years ago. Since then, plenty of articles have talked about what a great thing mutable torrents would be; and people have indicated that libtorrent supports them. When I look around, though, I can't find any mention of them in the documentation for major Bittorrent clients; and the proofs of concept, at least five years old, will require a bit of detective work to satisfy `npm install`. So, is that where things stand? A BEP, some musing that it would be cool, and broken code? Are there tools that work? If so, where?

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palata•19h ago
> A BEP, some musing that it would be cool, and broken code?

From your description, it sounds like "A BEP and an implementation in (the most popular?) torrent library". Did you try using the libtorrent implementation?

Then maybe there is no product out there using it. I also find the idea cool, but really I don't see where I would use it.

Do you have a use-case for it?

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