PATCHES file removed

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect it to be updated again from time to time, and the Wgiki seems to

Re: Version tracking in Wget binaries

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Micah Cowan wrote: Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Among other things, version.c is now generated rather than parsed. Every time make all is run, which also means that make all will always relink the wget binary,

Re: PATCHES file removed

2007-10-13 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect it to be updated again from time to time, and the Wgiki seems to be

wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? Tony

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? Tony IMO, this should be handled by the operating

Re: PATCHES file removed

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after a bit?

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point remains that the maximum initial rate (however you define initial in a protocol as unreliable as TCP/IP) can and will be wrong in a large number of cases, especially on shared connections.

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Josh Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after a

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you may have such problems but you are very much reaching in thinking that my --linux-percent has anything to do with any failing in linux. It's about dealing with unfair upstream switches, which, I'm quite sure, were not running

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to

Re: WGET Negative Counter Glitch

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Joshua Szanto wrote: http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/wget_glitch.gif I have no idea how that happened. My theory is this... I start downloading files.tar as normal, it starts at 0 and counts up to ~2.5GB (so far this is true). (Here's the

Re: WGET Negative Counter Glitch

2007-10-13 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joshua, There is a very strong likelihood that this has been fixed in the current development version of Wget. Could you try with that? If you're a Windows user, you can get a binary from