PATCHES file removed

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect it to be updated again from time to time, and the Wgiki seems to

Re: Version tracking in Wget binaries

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Micah Cowan wrote: > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >> Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Among other things, version.c is now generated rather than >>> parsed. Every time "make all" is run, which also means that "make >>> all" will always relink t

Re: PATCHES file removed

2007-10-13 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's > useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're > using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect it to be updated > again from time to time, and the Wgiki seems to

wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? Tony

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > > wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. > > Is this the right thing to do? > > Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? > > Tony IMO, this should be handled by the o

Re: PATCHES file removed

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's >> useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're >> using Mercurial rather than Subversion),

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. >> >> wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. >> >> Is this the right thing to do? >> >> Or is it better to back off a little

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tony Godshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> My point remains that the maximum initial rate (however you define > >> "initial" in a protocol as unreliable as TCP/IP) can and will be > >> wrong in a large number of cases, especially on sh

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > > > > wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. > > > > Is this the right thing to do? > > > > Or is it better to back of

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, you may have such problems but you are very much reaching in > thinking that my --linux-percent has anything to do with any failing > in linux. > > It's about dealing with unfair upstream switches, which, I'm quite > sure, were not runni

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > >> > >> wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. > >> > >> Is t

Re: WGET Negative Counter Glitch

2007-10-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Joshua Szanto wrote: > http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/wget_glitch.gif > > I have no idea how that happened. My theory is this... > > I start downloading files.tar as normal, it starts at 0 and counts up to > ~2.5GB (so far this is true). (Here's the

Re: WGET Negative Counter Glitch

2007-10-13 Thread Josh Williams
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > There is a very strong likelihood that this has been fixed in the > current development version of Wget. Could you try with that? > > If you're a Windows user, you can get a binary from > http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/WGetF