On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bart Smaalders wrote: > > > 1) make downloaded files usable between pkg invocations; when your > wireless > > craps out 450 MB into a large update, it's kind of frustrating that you > have > > to start from the beginning. > > > > This is another reason for using static-file semantics whenever possible... > HTTP GET has standard mechanisms for continuing interrupted transfers.
...and one of the reasons why I'm keen on getting rid of the tar stream we do now and changing the client to do get pipelined requests. cherrypy supports pipelining. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
