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Re: Distribution package has incorrect download percentage
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Re: Distribution package has incorrect download percentage


  • Subject: Re: Distribution package has incorrect download percentage
  • From: Conor Schutzman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:57:39 -0700

If I may inquire?  Why the hosted component packages instead of just build them
all into one distribution package with local resources?

> On Aug 11, 2017, at 9:49 AM, James Pritchard <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I don’t know if anyone can help me.
>
> I’ve been asked to investigate providing a better download experience for our
> customers.
>
> We’ve been happily using Packages for many years now and are currently using
> version 1.1.3 on OSX El Capitan (version 10.11.6).
>
> Our current software is packaged into five or six packages that users have to
> download individually and click through the UI for each one to install.
>
> I found that it’s possible to create raw packages from each of our
> distribution packages (using an export function) and then add them all to one
> distribution package with one UI. Each raw package I add as a referenced
> package with a given URL to download the package from.
>
> It works very nicely apart from the download percentage I get is very wrong.
> Each percentage figure I get is out by a factor of 100, so 1% was 100% and
> 99% was 9,900%. It was very confusing to me and could potentially cause
> issues with our customers.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this and whether there was a
> workaround? Is it a bug in packages or is it something I’m doing wrong?
>
> I’d really appreciate any help anyone can give me on this.
> Thanks,
> James
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