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Date: | Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:14:04 -0600 |
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Subject: | Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages |
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 06:46, Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> wrote: > > *splutter*. You obviously haven't seen setup.exe's source code, and > you're forgetting that any such solution also needs to be integrated > into the UI, most interestingly, the progress screen, which is > currently designed for downloading one package at a time. Parallel > downloading would be nice to have, but it's nowhere near the top of > the list of potential setup.exe improvements. > > Meanwhile, you could always implement your scheme as a script that > downloads into a local directory and installs from there. It sounds like what some want is a bittorrent-like operation. Could a load balancer running on cygwin.com perform this distribution better than embedding the logic into setup.exe? -pdw -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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