Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:08:53 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> 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. Message-ID: <19971015000853.28485@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 02:08:57AM -0700 References: <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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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
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