[Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. (would it be too hard to do for a perl beginner?) - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Max Horn
At 9:43 Uhr -0400 23.04.2002, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. First, you would have to do

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see what you mean. on a similer note, would it be difficult to make a command- fink downloadinfo packages, or fink install --downloadinfo packages, which would go through the beginning of the install process, calculated missing dependencies, and

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: At 9:43 Uhr -0400 23.04.2002, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. First, you would have to do

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads...

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Pepper
At 12:03 PM -0400 2002/04/23, Chris Devers wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: At 9:43 Uhr -0400 23.04.2002, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who

Re: [Fink-devel] parallel downloads

2002-04-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Max Horn wrote: How hard would it be to add code to perform x number of downloads at once, where x is set in the config field? just wondering, for people who have fast connections. First, you would have to do multiple process (forks). Then you have to manage those somehow. Now what do you