Re: X Code for Download
Re: X Code for Download
- Subject: Re: X Code for Download
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:17:09 +0100
The simplest thing is to do connect using the ftp command line tool and
do a "mget *", nothing beats that. Rock solid, works every time. I
assume that graphical FTP clients can do a mget equivalent as well, but
I haven't tried one in a long time so I wouldn't know. Transmit from
Panic(.com) is very cute though. I once tried to download the files
with Finder, but that was a very, very, painful experience that in the
end didn't work...
In any case, once the files are downloaded there are a couple of things
you might not know that makes them easier to work with:
* You only need to unarchive (.bin -> .dmg) the "first" (the one
without a number suffix) image part in a sequence. The other ones can
still be ".bin" files and things will still work all right. Not that I
understand why they are .bin-encoded in the first place? If the web
server had the correct mime-types it shouldn't be needed, right?
* You only need to mount the first segment in order to be able to use
the image to install / burn the contents of the image.
At first I was also slightly irritated about having to download a
segmented file, but with mget and the tricks above, it's actually
pretty OK.
Still, isn't it very weird that we're using a method of delivery that
doesn't (reliably) handle resumed transfers? The only reason I can
think of for segmenting files like this is that they expect people to
be disconnected - either by Apple, or by your own crappy ISP - but with
resumable downloads that wouldn't matter.
j o a r
On 2003-10-29, at 04.26, Daniel Xavier wrote:
I just noticed X-Code was made available for download from the free
membership Dev section.
Someone want to explain why it's in segments instead of one DMG, was
it like this for paying Dev members?
Will it be eventually changed?
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