Help with testing new Gecko downloader

[Jacek Caban]

Hi all,

My today patch [1] together with changes in Wine code from yesterday
changed the way we interact with SourceForge for downloading Gecko. It's
a risky change that could use wider testing from different locations. If
you'd like to help, you need to:

- Remove wine_gecko-2.36*.msi if you already have it. If you used
downloader to get it, it's most likely in ~/.cache/wine. If you
downloaded it manually, you know where to find it.
- Create new wineprefix

The most important thing is to ensure that downloading and installing
Gecko still works. The expected difference is shorter connection time
and faster downloads (or better said, no slow downloads).

I appreciate any feedback on this.

Thanks,
Jacek

[1] http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/109462

[Austin English]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Jacek Caban  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My today patch [1] together with changes in Wine code from yesterday
> changed the way we interact with SourceForge for downloading Gecko. It's
> a risky change that could use wider testing from different locations. If
> you'd like to help, you need to:
> - Remove wine_gecko-2.36*.msi if you already have it. If you used
>
> downloader to get it, it's most likely in ~/.cache/wine. If you
> downloaded it manually, you know where to find it.
> - Create new wineprefix
>
> The most important thing is to ensure that downloading and installing
> Gecko still works. The expected difference is shorter connection time
> and faster downloads (or better said, no slow downloads).
>
> I appreciate any feedback on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Jacek
>
> [1] http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/109462

Hi Jacek,

I've tested a bit with wine-1.7.35 and git, I haven't experienced any
issues with the new downloader. I didn't notice any extremely slow
downloads/starts, but I didn't attempt to time it. Thanks for the
improvements.

[Jacek Caban]

Hi Austin,

On 03/04/15 08:57, Austin English wrote:
> Hi Jacek,
>
> I've tested a bit with wine-1.7.35 and git, I haven't experienced any
> issues with the new downloader. I didn't notice any extremely slow
> downloads/starts, but I didn't attempt to time it. Thanks for the
> improvements.

Thanks for testing.

Given overall positive feedback and the fact that new Wine Mono was just
released, I sent a patch that should use the same code for Wine Mono. I
originally planned to propagate is slower, but I think people could use
faster downloads when we're about to release Wine with two addons updated.

Thanks,
Jacek