Hi all!
I'm pleased to announce the availability of jigdo-easy 2.1 for both Linux/*UX and Windows. Download it at: http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/jigdo/ Since the official-jigdo maintainer (Hi Richard ;-) doesn't seem to display a level of interest in portability and ease-of-use that is comparable to my own, I've reluctantly decided to definitively fork off from jigdo-lite and release my enhancements under a different name: jigdo-easy. Together with the included jigdo-port, this offers a complete and highly portable way to download the Debian CD images. The included jigdo-port 2.0 features support for the new template format, while remaining fully compatible with the old format. The jigdo-easy 2.1 front-end is enhanced in many aspects, all invisible to the user (which is the big idea behind jigdo-easy in the first place). New features include support for gzipped .jigdo files (incl menus), support for multi-[Image] .jigdo files transparantly from the menu system, and functionality to enable fully-automatic load spreading for the .jigdo and .template downloads using only the menu system (I hope to have the server side operational next week). (Note that the support for multi-image .jigdo files does NOT mean that I think this is a good idea. The only useful application I see is the merging of two almost-exactly-the-same .jigdo files into one, but I doubt that this will be done in practice. It's just that _if_ someone _ever_ would decide to do such a (IMHO) Bad Thing, jigdo-easy can handle it. And far more user-friendly than intended, too ;-) Since the official woody images will be available primarily (at least the first days/weeks) in jigdo format, we should make sure that the download tools are working properly. I'm quite confident that jigdo-easy/jigdo-port will do a fine job, but I'd still appreciate it if people (yes, that means you) could give it a try on as many systems as possible (which includes all available variants of M$Win). Please report your experiences to the debian-cd list, or to me privately. Currently only the official 2.2rev6 images are "guaranteed" to be available via the menu system of jigdo-easy; I hope to check/make the menus for unofficial/testing/unstable images during the next few days. In the mean time, you can specify any .jigdo URL on the jigdo-easy command line or at any menu prompt. Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
