client.seed, stream input

[ArtskydJ]

It looks like streams are used internally in client.seed().

What about allowing a stream as an input?

[mafintosh]

me and @feross had this discussion on twitter at some point. the problem with accepting streams as input is that in order to seed you need to be able to "re-read" the input and do random access etc. this means that in order to seed a stream you basically need to load the entire thing into memory (or write it to a tmp file) which kinda defeats the purpose

[feross]

What @mafintosh said :)

[ArtskydJ]

Ok, thanks!