Matt Joiner

What's the difference between pause and stop? When would you use them? Do you have anything to add @axet and @arranlomas?

There definitely seems to be some desire for it, but I want to be sure what is gained, other than peace of mind for some users and some minor interface...

Still chasing though, what is it that you need from pause/stop? Ceasing network activity? Killing all connections?

Could you describe that more? Do you mean after you Drop a Torrent, it continues to function in some way?

I might take some inspiration from recent criticisms of arbitrary labelling of things, like levelled logging, and add very specific methods like {Cease,Pause,Resume}Networking. That seems to be the main one...

Well currently the Torrent currently announces periodically. The spec seems to suggest that the started event be sent when downloading begins, and stopped when it ceases, so I guess it's...

I'm intending to progress on this to fix #377. Specifically in that issue, downloading of data needs to cease until the disk situation is fixed, so I'll start there. I'm...

See https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/issues/377#issuecomment-589933793.

Any update on this?

Yes I am. I will be happy to test.