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"newsetup.exe" -- please try
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: "newsetup.exe" -- please try
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:58:58 -0400
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
I spent some more time today working on setup.exe and hopefully
accomplished the following:
1) Changed the ftp connection mode to "passive", which will hopefully
work around some problems with firewalls.
2) Added an option to keep the ftp connection open so that it doesn't
have to reconnect each time it tries to get something via ftp. This
seems to speed up connection times substantially.
3) Detect when a file that is downloaded is not the right size and
issue a "Abort, Retry, Fail" message.
This is all checked in and is copied to the "latest" directory under the
name "newsetup.exe". I would appreciate it if you all could try this
out and let cygwin-developers know if there are problems.
Since it seems to improve download speeds considerably, I'm anxious
to replace setup.exe with this version. It should lighten the load
on sourceware and all of the mirrors.
cgf