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RE: NO huge packages, please!
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:10:28 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: NO huge packages, please!
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> At 09:43 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >...
> >
> >... Perhaps it would be better to enhance the Setup tool to be a little
> >more robust in it's download processing. Perhaps adding a re-try option
> >on an incomplete package pull? I haven't looked into the guts of Setup
> >for a while, but I'd bet that this might be doable with a minimum hassle.
>
> Peter,
> Setup does this already.
Hmmm, then perhaps this is a more recent addition? I seem to recall
having problems in this area a while ago (which is one of the reasons I
have a local mirror). That or perhaps it was some other problem and just
showed similar symptoms. Since I've been using a local mirror, I haven't
experienced anything like what we've been talking about. But, if this is
the case, and Setup has had this functionality for a while, then why was
the subject of having trouble downloading over an unreliable connection
coming up? I'm a bit confused as to which problem we are addressing here
now.
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
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