Re: Improving the performance of "mingw-get update"

On 17/04/13 13:18, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 16/04/13 20:39, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>>>
>>> Any comments, before I commit?
>>
>> Yes, go for it.  I'm all for saving the download time.  As we grow to
>> support 64bit as well as 32bit it will be critical to not need to do
>> the download of already up-to-date files.

Done.  The modified infrastructure is in place; will all of you with 
active sandboxes please pull the changes, re-run autoconf, and then 
reconfigure your working copies, before making any further changes.

> Okay, but I do have a couple of comments of my own:
>
> 1) Both ChangeLog and my newly generated mingw32-package-list.xml.lzma
> (attached) indicate that you, Earnie, added mingw32-wsl-candidate.xml on
> 2013-04-10, but the package list itself bears an earlier time stamp,
> indicating a last update for publication on 2013-03-05.  Although this
> looks incongruous, it is possible if you added the *reference* for the
> XML file to the package list, and rebuilt as "publication ready" on this
> date, more than a month before you actually made the XML file itself
> available for publication; however, is it correct?

Regardless, I now think it prudent to reissue the package lists, with 
updated issue stamps in any case, so I've gone ahead and done so.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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