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Is this Windows-only? If not, what's the UI outside Windows?

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Yes, that's a good suggestion. The readme is due for a rewrite so I'll make sure to mention that somewhere up top!

EDIT: the parent post was edited, and this comment was written for the original post.

There's a linux directory, what's that for?

I've split the project in two parts, PicoTorrent and PicoTorrentCore. PicoTorrentCore is cross-platform and builds on GCC4.8.

The linux directory contains build scripts to build on Linux, which is used for the TravisCI builds.

And there's no UI yet, right? If you plan to write one, I'd suggest Qt, since you use C++ extensively already.

I hear qt is excellent, but would encourage you to do distinct ui code for each platform, in that platform's native ui libs. You'll look like a fish out of water otherwise.

Yeah, that's what I'm planning in order to keep it small and tidy.

You might want to start with a web UI then (like SyncThing). This provides you with a simple way to display your data and you get Mac / Linux / etc support for "Free" while also allowing your Windows users to have simple network access.

No extra dependencies, no UI toolkits!

Yes, and then you have Hadouken (https://github.com/hadouken/hadouken), another BitTorrent client of mine (though server oriented) :)

To be clear, Qt is as native as you can get on X11 and Wayland. There is no vendor-controlled UI toolkit as on Windows or OS X or Android or ...

Why not using electron on top of the api? it's not overly complicated UI anyway, and it will build on an api that other can use.

Sorry about that, I posted too fast and after seeing the linux directory reformulated it.

Basically I was suggesting to more prominently mention it's Windows-only and not just in the list of features.

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