Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/02/13:41:38
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:14:04AM -0600, paul DOT hermeneutic AT gmail DOT com wrote:
>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?
No.
cgf
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