[bt-devel] BibleTime 2.1 packaged for Ubuntu

[Martin Gruner]

Jonathan,

afaict Eeli's original plan was to implement a multi-threaded install, but it 
did not work out because of technical problems (I believe with FTP transport, 
caused crashes). So currently there is only one thread active at a time.
If you want to change the installing logic, please negotiate with Eeli.

mg

Am Dienstag, 14. Juli 2009 06:53:14 schrieb Jonathan Marsden:
> Greg Hellings wrote:
> >> Hopefully Gary or Eeli can find a way to improve that for BT 2.2.
> >
> > I believe Troy has a suggestion he's made to the list as to how this
> > is possible, but we were waiting for after the 2.1 release to try it
> > out.
>
> So now 2.1 is out, there is no reason to wait :)
>
> Actually I was thinking more of an interim "fix" along the lines of a
> test in the installer that does something like (pseudocode):
>
>   install_multi_threaded = true         // Default to multithreaded
>   if number_of_modules_to_install > 4   // Or other small value of n
>     install_multi_threaded = false
>   fi
>
>   // Then branch on install_multi_threaded to decide whether to
>   // do all the installs is one thread, or one thread per module.
>
> until the real official solution allowing both good install speed and
> multiple threads when installing many modules becomes available.  But I
> don't know how doable that kind of a "fix" would be.
>
> > I will build 2.1 for Mac tomorrow and hopefully we can post that to
> > the download page as a public beta for Mac?  I hope to have a Windows
> > build to beta status by 2.2, building off of what I learned from Mac
> > and from digging through the Qt4 docs.
>
> Cool; it would be good to get the non-Unix builds closer to a similar
> status as the Unix-based ones enjoy.
>
> Jonathan
>
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