[pca] Heads-up: New download service

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Tue Aug 2 15:45:51 CEST 2011


Jeff Earickson wrote:
> Paul, it would be nice if pca spit up a message if a URL connection
> times out, even if you are not running in debug mode.

I agree in that it would be nice, but it won't happen. I'm leaving all the 
download stuff to wget - and I'm very glad that I don't have to care about that 
in PCA - which will timeout eventually, but I have no plans to write ugly code 
looking at wget's (debug) output to see what's going on. With all the redirects 
and all the changes in Sun's/Oracle's backend infrastructure in the past, this 
would be a nightmare.

Martin.



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