Re: [Mldonkey-users] An idea for bandwith save

[kami petersen]

Saiyine wrote:

> As a user, I first downloaded the 2.5.9 package. Days after, 2.5.10. Then 
> 2.5.11. And, finally, the 2.5.12 one, about 14'5 megabytes in total.
>
> Then I thought "I'm sure the differencies between each release are pretty 
> small, and is a waste to download so much redundant data". So I tried xdelta 
> with them, with the next results:
>
>  
i think you are somewhat fooled by this project's rather fuzzy release 
situation. it is fairly self evident for any software project that 
releasing new features everyday is nothing strange, but directing these 
in binary form to the general public is probably counter productive, 
since it surely just adds to the confusion and makes bug handling and 
performance analysis very hard. there's nothing official about the 
packages you mention (i think), but if you are really eager to run 
current and thus be a part of the development process, then a cvs 
checkout should do you good. totally clueless bug reports are generally 
useless.

and by the way, i think that if you find downloading 15 MB every couple 
of days hard (and i assure you, that over time it's more like every 
couple of weeks), then you should probably question your need for 
mldonkey in the first place.

adding binary diffs as a third distribution method will surely add to 
confusion, and take away problem solving focus from what's really important.

/kami