thanks Hampus! I think it's one of the most useful too! so much so, that I think it may be more important than ME2. not to knock ME2! :) but ME1 is great enough and gets us by fine (not that the new features would be good too).
I wonder how much work this actually is? On May 9, 4:29 am, Hampus Wessman <[email protected]> wrote: > That would be really nice. Chunk checksums is one of the coolest > metalink features, IMO! > > I could do this after I've finished Metalink Editor 2.0, but that might > take some time. It would be even better if someone else did it before! > > Hampus Wessman > > On Fri, 8 May 2009 17:31:15 -0400 > > Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
