On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:38:53PM -0300, Monic Polynomial wrote:
> On 19/04/2009, at 12:06, Jack Howarth wrote:
>> Yuck. This source code is restricted so we can't host it and it will
>> be a huge pain to have to deal with every user complaining that they
>> can't download the source. Certainly we must have some other option
>> available on the info file level? It seem like overkill to force the
>> user to change timeouts or download methods system wide for just a
>> single slow server.
>
>
> IMHO a system-wide change from curl to wget is a minor annoyance if an
> annoyance at all.
>
>
> --
> monipol
It's not really a minor annoyance when every singl user who tries
to install this package will have a download timeout and email me
asking why the download is broken. Hacking around the problem with
a custom download PatchScript seems far better than answering all
of those emails.
Jack
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