> > > >> > > >> There are people who have a very bad band-with. In my case, it's fine > > >> when I am at university. But other than that, I only have a mobile > > >> internet stick, for which 50MB more or less really matters. > > > > > +1 with this point of view. > > However, when lacking good internet connection, unless the bandwidth is > so slow that it was already impossible to download sage itself (in such > (frequent) cases the question is irrelevant, and workarounds like the > self replicating live USB may apply), as for me the problem is not much > the total size (one can wait), but the fact that some spkgs are a huge > single file and must be downloaded all at once. > > A concrete example for me is "sage -i database_gap" which always > requires a lot of attempts because in the download duration, there is > always a timeout at some point that forces to redownload everything from > the beginning. A manual solution is to use repeated "wget --continue" > within the upstream/ directory, which 'sage -i' is not offering by > default. I am not sure if urllib has such an obstination option. >
Hmm, this is a good point. And Mac doesn't have `wget` so one has to use `curl` which perhaps doesn't have the same options, and I don't know what Sage uses internally to download all this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
