New program: getsffile

[Vincent Béron]

Sent to wine-devel to get feedback on initial idea and implementation.

New program in programs/getsffile (Get Sourceforge File). It downloads a
file from Sourceforge download section, finding a suitable mirror by
itself.

This should solve part of the mirroring problem we have for the Mozilla
ActiveX control, to make it easy to install on demand, and can most
probably be used by other similar things as well.

You can also specify a preferred mirror in the registry
(Software\Wine\getsffile, key SFPreferredMirror. If the file is not
available from that mirror (mirror down, not yet synced, etc.), it'll
try another one (up to 3 times). The list of mirrors is got from sf.net,
it's not maintained in getsffile.

Basically, to use it to get the Mozilla ActiveX control, what needs to
be done is to actually put the control on sf (along with a zip
containing 2 needed dlls, one of them is msvcp60.dll), and change the
download logic in shdocvw to call getsffile for both files rather than
do the download itself. The installation part is almost the same (it'd
be nice if the zip would be installed at the same time, even nicer if it
wouldn't be needed but that's Mozilla's part).

Note that it's still not 100% proof, some mirrors give a 404 back and
it's not properly detected. Is it possible to detect such things while
using URLDownloadToFile?

The whole dialog is ripped from shdocvw (Mike McCormack's work), the
rest is my own development.

Vincent

[Brian Vincent]

On 01 May 2005 17:12:50 -0400, Vincent Béron
 wrote:
> New program in programs/getsffile (Get Sourceforge File). It downloads a
> file from Sourceforge download section, finding a suitable mirror by
> itself.

I think this same problem came up with winetest and winrash.  Perhaps
this could be incorporated into winrash for upgrades?

Also, as Dimi pointed out at WineConf, we need to change the
DocumentRoot for test.winehq.org to point one level lower to where
http://test.winehq.org/data/ currently is.  We're still collecting
data from winrash clients, so that's cool.

-Brian

[Chris Morgan]

It would be a useful feature to have.  I'm still hoping someone will come 
along and take over winrash development.  That hasn't happened yet.  I'm not 
sure when I'd get a change to put such a feature in unless someone else wants 
to help out.

Chris

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 7:48 pm, Brian Vincent wrote:
> On 01 May 2005 17:12:50 -0400, Vincent Béron
>
>  wrote:
> > New program in programs/getsffile (Get Sourceforge File). It downloads a
> > file from Sourceforge download section, finding a suitable mirror by
> > itself.
>
> I think this same problem came up with winetest and winrash.  Perhaps
> this could be incorporated into winrash for upgrades?
>
> Also, as Dimi pointed out at WineConf, we need to change the
> DocumentRoot for test.winehq.org to point one level lower to where
> http://test.winehq.org/data/ currently is.  We're still collecting
> data from winrash clients, so that's cool.
>
> -Brian

[Jakob Eriksson]

Maybe I'm being thick, but why do you need to change winrash for that?

Chris Morgan wrote:
> It would be a useful feature to have.  I'm still hoping someone will come 
> along and take over winrash development.  That hasn't happened yet.  I'm not 
> sure when I'd get a change to put such a feature in unless someone else wants 
> to help out.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 7:48 pm, Brian Vincent wrote:
> > On 01 May 2005 17:12:50 -0400, Vincent Béron
> >
> >  wrote:
> > > New program in programs/getsffile (Get Sourceforge File). It downloads a
> > > file from Sourceforge download section, finding a suitable mirror by
> > > itself.
> >
> > I think this same problem came up with winetest and winrash.  Perhaps
> > this could be incorporated into winrash for upgrades?
> >
> > Also, as Dimi pointed out at WineConf, we need to change the
> > DocumentRoot for test.winehq.org to point one level lower to where
> > http://test.winehq.org/data/ currently is.  We're still collecting
> > data from winrash clients, so that's cool.
> >
> > -Brian

[Brian Vincent]

On 5/5/05, Jakob Eriksson  wrote:
> Maybe I'm being thick, but why do you need to change winrash for that?

winrash has the ability to upgrade itself from sf.  We could also host
the winetest versions there, however the real problem is uploading to
sf, so I'm not sure how important that part is.

-Brian