True. I'll look into it! Shouldn't be that hard. / Hampus
Ant Bryan skrev: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
