Re: time to download

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

Hmm.  Maybe this should be a FAQ entry?

I hesitate to do this because it is going to be wrong quickly.

What would be *really* nice is to add this to setup.exe itself.  If there was
a screen which showed download sizes that would be interesting.  Getting
installed sizes would be very hard, of course.

Does anyone want to provide a patch which makes setup.exe show download
bytes and estimated download times for various connections?

cgf

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Barry Buchbinder wrote:
>I've got just executables.  They take up about 67 M.  Since I've got the
>"current" archive and often, but not always, one "previous" archive, the
>real number for just one copy of the executables will be something more than
>half that.  Say ~40 M?  But since the files are split into packages, one can
>do stop in the middle without needing to start all over again.
>
>- Barry Buchbinder
>
>To: "murthy ramana" <rmyadla at hotmail dot com>,cygwin at cygwin dot com 
>     Subject: Re: time to download 
>     From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com> 
>     Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 16:29:11 -0500 
>
>At 04:20 PM 2/9/2001, murthy ramana wrote:
>>justi need to know how much time will it take to down load cygwin through
>>56kb
>>modem ?
>
>What I downloaded today includes source and encompasses both the latest and
>contrib branches.  It occupies about 370MB on my disk, if that's helpful for
>you.  I'm sure the lion's share of that is the source, which you may want to
>skip (initially)...
>
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