Hey, On Monday, February 3, 2020 10:28:53 AM EET Ville Voutilainen wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 08:58, Bogdan Vatra <bogdan.va...@kdab.com> wrote: > > > Qt installer resumes downloads after a network connection break. > > > apt-get does not. :) > > > > > You must be kidding, apt it's (one of) the best package manager! It > > resumes > > > > the download(s) from the same point from where the connection dropped. > > Ah, I must have used apt-get with bad servers that didn't accept a > resume, then. But hey, > Qt installer doesn't even abort, it hangs around, and you can do a > "suspend your laptop, go > home, resume the computer and resume the download too" as if nothing > happened, whereas > apt-get will not do that. :P
One thing with the online installer is that for whatever reason tends to pick up slow mirrors, resulting sometimes in a very slow download, thus installations taking 30+ minutes (on a fast connection). Many times I ended up just using internally mirrored offline installers. Andras -- András Mantia | andras.man...@kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company Tel: Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322) KDAB - The Qt Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development