[gpodder-devel] Removed wget: The new gPodder downloader

  • From: alistair.sutton at gmail.com (Alistair Sutton)
  • Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:40:54 +0100

On 19/09/2007, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net> wrote:
>
> Hello, Alistair!
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:47 +0100, Alistair Sutton wrote:
> > On 18/09/2007, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net> wrote:
> >         On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 21:08 +0200, Pieter De Decker wrote:
> >         > Will this change allow us to download shows faster or
> >         something?
> >
> >         Probably not. The GUI interface is more responsive and
> >         accurate with reporting progress, with wget that wasn't
> >         possible.
> >
> > So the pauses that happened when a download had finished should be
> > shorter or not be there at all?
>
> The pauses after a download could be related to the tag updates. Just
> run gPodder in the console with the --verbose switch (or "make test" if
> you are using the SVN version) and after the download, if there is a
> pause, the last line on the console should tell you that it's updating
> the file's tag.
>
> I don't know if I can make this faster, apart from making the tag update
> happen just a second later after the download and putting it in its own
> "tag update" thread to keep the GUI responding, or should I simply show
> an information dialog that the tag is being updated?



I wouldn't worry too much about it as I seem to be the only person who has
mentioned this.

It isn't a problem as I tend to queue up the podcasts and leave them to
finish.

Al


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