On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:14:04AM -0600, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote: >On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 06:46, Andy Koppe <andy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> *splutter*. You obviously haven't seen setup.exe's source code, and >> you're forgetting that any such solution also needs to be integrated >> into the UI, most interestingly, the progress screen, which is >> currently designed for downloading one package at a time. Parallel >> downloading would be nice to have, but it's nowhere near the top of >> the list of potential setup.exe improvements. >> >> Meanwhile, you could always implement your scheme as a script that >> downloads into a local directory and installs from there. > >It sounds like what some want is a bittorrent-like operation. > >Could a load balancer running on cygwin.com perform this distribution >better than embedding the logic into setup.exe?
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