I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I'd guess that most metalink users are taking advantage of them with DownThemAll!.
DTA is easy to use, pleasant looking, & just a Firefox extension install away. the only metalink related feature it lacks is repairing a download if the metalink has chunk checksums. it already verifies checksums for the whole file. I think this should be one of our higher priorities, because of the amount of people that DTA reaches. for instance, openSUSE uses metalinks with chunk checksums, but if a downloader uses a metalink client that doesn't support them then the downloader could get frustrated if there's an error in their big download... we have this on our ideas page & here's the request in the DTA bugtracker http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/web/gsoc-ideas http://bugs.code.downthemall.net/trac/ticket/413 does anyone with JS skills want to work on this? Nils had said he would accept a patch. maybe someone from the openSUSE community could do it? -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
