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my-bittorrent

Overview :

  my-bittorrent is a simple program allowing to download and upload torrents
  following the BitTorrent protocol.

I)  Building executable

* For the maintainer
    ```bash
      # Run everytime any Makefile.am or the configure.ac is updated
      # in order to generate ./configure
      autoreconf -vi
      # Then run this to generate the appropriate config and Makefiles
      ./configure
      # then you can use the makefiles as ususal
      make                    # Will build the binary in ./src/my-bittorrent
      make maintainter-clean  # Will most of the files generated by autoreconf
                              # note that you should keep the ./configure and
                              # other generated binaries if you're not panning
                              # on updating the Makefile
    ```
* Run test suite
  make check

II) Usage

      ./my-bittorrent [options] [files]

  OPTIONS
      --pretty-print-torrent-file
        To pretty-print the content of the .torrent file
      --dump-peers
        Display peers and ports we got from tracker
      --verbose
        Log everything on standart output