Changes between Initial Version and Version 2 of Ticket #20652


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Aug 12, 2009, 2:55:15 PM (15 years ago)
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nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)
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  • Ticket #20652

    • Property Keywords fetch axel curl libcurl removed
    • Property Version changed from 1.7.1 to

  • Ticket #20652 – Description

    initial v2  
     1If a port has multiple master_sites listed (either explicitly or implicitly through the likes of sourceforge), we should consider splitting the file download chunks into pieces.
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     3The size of the file can be determined with a curl header call and then even portions distributed to each download.  In the future, we can use our ping calculations to fuzz this off even segments to chunks that are fitting for the ping times.
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     5This feature should likely be implemented as opt-in, since most users don't expect to attempt to fully saturate their bandwidth.