Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 17:07:10 -0400 (EDT) From: lists AT m8y DOT org X-X-Sender: nemo AT nautilus DOT m8y DOT org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: setup.exe bandwidth waste Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Since I'm on the mailing list now, might as well ask something that has bugged me for some time. Far too often, a connection fails at 99% of a huge download (say tetex doc). When something like this happens under gentoo, it does a continuation. Why doesn't setup.exe check the MD5, if fails, try a continuation, then MD5 after that as well? I feel guilty wasting 10-15MB of bandwidth just to redownload something. Also, on a related note, I was curious if Cygwin does incremental updates, or if it just keeps one massive binary per version. Thanks, Derek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/