On Apr 20, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Ben, > > The ZIP packages are in a number of formats for different platforms > (MacOSX, Windows, Raw, etc.) They are not to intended to be used by > InstallMgr. We have discussed adding to InstallMgr support for .zip > downloads of modules, but the discussed approach would rely on the ftp > server supporting the fairly common feature that GET <directory>.zip > will attempt to zip up a <directory> on the server side and send it to > the client.
Troy, You and I talked about this at great length on IRC and, IIRC, the other thing you were amenable to was using the current directory of zips as an unreliable cache: If it was there fine, otherwise fall back to the current methodology or a new ftp dir.zip mechanism. The cache would be a sibling directory to mods.d and modules. On the CrossWire server it would probably be managed as a symbolic link. After that discussion, I started to work on it, but I wasn't able to get very far before other tasks distracted me. DM _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
