On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 17:23, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's fantastic. I should learn about metalinks -- I'm clueless > about them. Thanks.
Yes ;-) They are even standardized now: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854 Basically, they contain a list of hashes and a list of source URLs. There is a firefox plugin (downthemall) that claims to be able to handle it. Personally, I use aria2 on the commandline. Also, e.g. libreoffice provides them: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.4.4/deb/x86_64/LibO_3.4.4_Linux_x86-64_helppack-deb_gu.tar.gz.mirrorlist Also interesting, I just found apt-metalink, which is apt-get downloading .debs via aria2: https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/apt-metalink Unfortunately it's a bit of a hen-egg problem, but I'm optimistic they will be sometimes supported by webbrowsers direclty. H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
