From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 14 23:38:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22053 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22036; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id HAA27349; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:15:32 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA26159; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:08:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19971015000853.28485@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:08:53 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Satoshi Asami Cc: jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. References: <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 02:08:57AM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 02:08:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:56:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I know this is probably too late for 2.2.5, but I thought it might be > * worth mentioning anyway. What do people think to putting the size of > * the tarball somewhere in the skeleton for each port? This would be > * very helpful for people with poor Internet connectivity. Quite a few > * times I've thought about installing a port, but wasn't sure how long > * a download I was letting myself in for. Currently, the only way this > * can be done is by looking on the master site. > > Hmm. That is an interesting idea. Another thing is, that it would be fine, if fetch would show more infos about the download progress. Percent of downloaded data, performance (K/sec), estimated time remaining. When downloading large files it would be extremely useful. -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' andreas@klemm.gtn.com - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html andreas@FreeBSD.ORG - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html