I'm sorry, I missed the point about using LiveCode's built-in upgrade
download capacity when
I reported that it took me about 3 minutes to download LC 9.0.
The reason I missed the point was that I have used the in-built upgrade
system exactly once (on a Mac)
and the whole thing was such a negative experience (slow and giving me a
slight feeling I wasn't in control)
that I have always downloaded versions via the download page through
Firefox.
The time I used the in-built upgrade system was a few years ago: and
coupled with the odd situation
that versions such as the 9.0 DP series offered me the opportunity to
"update" to some of the 8.1 series,
the result was that the in-built upgrade system has not been in the
"forefront of my consciousness"
for a considerable time.
Richmond.
On 7/4/2018 6:12 am, Ron Metzker via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Panos,
I updated my two Macs today with LiveCode 9.0.0. Unfortunately I also had a
very slow download on both. I have a very fast internet connection. I dowloaded
them from within LiveCode by doing an update.
After I had downloaded them, I tried to see what the problem was. I did a test
on my internet. It was at the correct speed in the test. So I went to the
LiveCode download page and downloaded both the Indy and the Business dmg from
the site at the same time. It took only a couple of minutes. So the slowness of
the download appears to caused by using the LiveCode download stack. It was
probably 20 to 30 times slower than using the download page.
Best Regards,
Ron
On Apr 4, 2018, at 10:51 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
@Peter
One more thing to try before filing a bug report:
1. Clear Prefs again
2. Open LC, you should see the revFileAssociation dialog ("LiveCode files
are not currently associated with this version. Would you like to make this
association?")
3. Choose "Yes"
Does the splash screen close after that?
BTW if you want to close this stack manually, you can try that:
- type in the msg box "close the mousestack" but do NOT press Enter
- place the cursor on the splash stack
- press enter
I am wondering if an error occurs on startup, so LC stops execution, and
the line of code in the IDE startup scripts that closes this stack is never
reached.
@Richard
Thanks for the update, I'll pass it to the team. I know we had at least
another 3 users in your area that suffered from very slow download speeds.
Network issues are hard to diagnose :)
Best,
Panos
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
@Peter Bogdanoff bogdanoff:
Yesterday it took me 3-4 hours to download LC 9. I’m in California.
Good to know I'm not the only one. Thanks.
@Panos:
Do you still experience slow download speed? I had no problem
yesterday from my home internet connection
Thanks for asking. Yes, and it's been the darndest thing. Not even my ISP
could explain it. It's been this way for more than a week, and persists
this morning, even across multiple computers.
I was able to find a workaround that demonstrates that it's not the
livecode.com server per se: I shelled into one of my VPSes in New Jersey
and used wget to download the builds I needed - each took less than a
minute there. Then I copied them to my web folder, and on my local machine
downloaded from that VPS - at normal speed.
So to summarize what I've learned thus far:
- It's not my computer: all computers here show this slow download
- It's not your server: I can download from it to another computer
in a different geographic region with no delay.
- It's not my local network setup: Peter has the same issue, and
downloading from my VPS is speedy.
Given all this, my wild guess would be that this is something related to
the CDN you're using (Cloudflare?), affecting only southern California, or
maybe even more limited than that since Peter and I are less than about 20
miles from one another.
While Cloudflare's status page shows the Los Angeles area to be
"Operational", a quick search at Google turned up a few discussions about
issues in my area, the most recent I stumbled across being just 22 hours
ago.
The bigger mystery is that this has persisted as long as it has. Most
CDNs are super on top of things, and a multi-day issue is rare.
At least I have a workaround for now, and if I learn anything more I'll
pass it along. In the meantime, if you hear of anything with your CDN it
may be helpful to share.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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