Hello, Pieter! On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 21:08 +0200, Pieter De Decker wrote: > Will this change allow us to download shows faster or something?
Probably not. The GUI interface is more responsive and accurate with reporting progress, with wget that wasn't possible. > Or is it just a technology-related improvement? Does urllib allow you > to resume downloads (wget did, using "wget -c")? It's much cleaner in implementation than the old "libwget" stuff, so easier maintainable. Also (as mentioned above), the status and progress updates are more accurate and the progress bar updates more often. urllib as it's currently used doesn't support resume, but the old "libwget" also didn't really support resume, as the partially downloaded file was deleted after a failure. I'm still not sure how to correctly implement download resume without cluttering the hard disk with many partially downloaded files (currently, gPodder tries to keep its download folders clean). Also, some HTTP web servers still don't support resuming correctly, so this means more error checking and handling on the client side. So, as for resume in gPodder: Some time in the future when I get to it. Thomas _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
