[darcs-devel] libwww bug

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Thu Jan 10 20:04:14 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:57:09PM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> I can confirm a speedup of better than a factor of four in download times
> using the new libwww code by Dmitry that I'm right now pushing:

Alas, it appears that there is a bug in the libwww code.  I am able to
reproducibly trigger errors with my xmonad repository, in which a download
fails without giving a failure message.  It exits with success, but the
downloaded file has size zero.  :(  So I'm deprecating the libwww bindings
for now (making them non-default, but leaving them there, so interested
folks could compile with them using configure --with-libwww), and plan to
remove them before the 2.0 release, unless they get fixed (and I don't have
time to fix them).
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University


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