Rodrigo, On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
> Hello! > > First of all I want to congratulate all you people that have made > possible CYGWIN+XFREE. I think that the whole is already a mature, > wonderful product. In particular the new multiwindow feature of XWin > is really cool. FYI, most of this message (except, possibly, the above) should have been sent only to the main cygwin list. Please remove cygwin-xfree from further discussion (that list munges the Reply-To: header, so you'll have to do this manually). > I have a petition to make: Have a little bit of mercy with us poor > guys that have slow internet connections! For example at home I have > a connection that most of the time is below 1kb/s, with such a speed > to download XFree86-fnts (16.3Mb) takes at least 5 hours (but it can > take much more). During such a long time the chances of losing a dialup > connection are very high. What can you do? > a) avoid making huge packets (say more than 8-10 Mb). I am sure that > most huge packets, that are composed of many directories, can be > splitted in some sensible way; or > b) implement some way of downloading the packets with ftp, so one can > use wget or similar programs capable of partial downloading; or > c) make the cygwin setup program capable of partial downloading. > > Thanks in advance > Rodrigo Medina Well, c) is on the setup TODO list (PTC[*] and, for the most part, PGA[*]). b) is already there -- all of the packages are available through ftp mirrors (see <http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html>). You should be able to use wget to download the packages directly into the setup cache directory, and then install from there. You might also find Michael Chase's clean_setup script useful (it's in the archives). a) is unlikely -- the packages are maintained on a volunteer basis, so it's up to individual maintainers, but I know that splitting packages happens very rarely and mostly due the interface changes, rather than size considerations. Igor [*] <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/> -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
