externalize list of clients and versions and make it editable by users in configuration files and/or settings

[cedbeu]

It would be great to be able to edit manually the client information (at least the version) because, depending on the platform (macOS, Linux, Windows), the latest version available of clients is not always the same, and the trackers may find it suspicious if version is changing regularly when faking ratio…

Currently, it’s hardcoded in rustatio-core/src/torrent/client.rs

It would be great to have this externalized in configuration files, and/or editable from the interface

eg. I’d like to use the current macOS qBittorrent version that is 5.0.5, but, it’s not available in Rustatio (only 5.0.2 or 5.1.3 or 5.1.4)… same for Transmission on macOS, latest version is 4.1.1, but latest version available in Rustatio is 4.0.5

So far, only option to keep consistent for the tracker is to downgrade, or to wait for a new version of Rustatio is built (or taking the risk to be spotted by the tracker)

[takitsu21]

Hello,
You raise a very good point. I’ll look into what I can do to better support this use case.

I’d prefer to avoid letting users manually select the exact version, since that could easily lead to misconfiguration. That’s also why keeping it hardcoded is not necessarily a bad approach

[cedbeu]

thanks for you answer @takitsu21

I understand what you mean, yes

In that case (just trying to figure out alternative ideas), maybe a kind of API, that would keep the list of clients and versions up-to-date, without the need of re-building a new release?

But well… an API means more work, a server, etc. Well, maybe even a static config file available online on the official github (URL hardcoded)?

Or maybe a plugin system?