http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20000
--- Comment #12 from Jacek Caban jacek@codeweavers.com 2009-10-11 06:04:58 --- (In reply to comment #11)
Those separate things should have been tested separately and enabled one at a time. With the patch you thrown a switch and enabled lots of new code. Don't complain that people finding all the different problems now.
I don't complain, I'm just saying that these are different problems so they should be separated bugs, not duplicates.
and makes me think we should finally get rid of Gecko downloader BTW
Haven't seen any major issues with it, other then Wine not being able to install it properly. I've yet to see any problems with actual file downloading. Surely something as simple as single file download from one hard-coded URL shouldn't be a problem.
The problem is that we have to run message loop during downloading and apps might not expect it. Alternatively we could move it to separated thread, but then the app would be frozen until download is complete. That's why I don't consider using downloader the right way for installing Gecko and now that most distros have Gecko packaged, we might consider removing it. Anyway, it's not the right place to discuss it.