Help with testing new Gecko downloader

[Austin English]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Jacek Caban <jacek at codeweavers.com> 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.

-- 
-Austin
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