[sword-devel] InstallMgr questions

Jonathan Morgan jonmmorgan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 03:58:35 MST 2008


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:
> Adding to what others have said, I'll note that the ZIPs are not
>  reliably up to date. They are only updated by the JSPs after someone has
>  attempted to download an out of date ZIP of the same type (raw presumably).
>
>  Furthermore, since all new modules are compressed (excepting GenBooks),
>  there is not much savings in download size.

A potential saving of connections made to the server as well as
individual file requests does cut download size, as well as saving
time.  I don't know if the suggestion of using FTP to get compressed
files would cut either of these.

Jon



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