On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Isn't size useful so you can differentiate between a truncated download and a > broken file?
Sure, but that should be an implementation detail. If you do a port fetch, say, and interrupt it 3/4 of the way through, it might detect this and do the equivalent of a curl -C, but that would still not be user visible (other than taking a lot less time the 2nd time around). Of course, that leaves open the question of what to do if the resulting file does not pass the checksum - do you silently throw it away and start over, or do you just throw the usual error (potentially bogusly), or what? This is why the KISS principle was first formulated, I think. :-) - Jordan _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
