Download All option

pacho · Post by **pacho** » October 5th, 2005, 6:40 pm

I think that is a good idea to add a "Download all" option on Download Campaigns dialog.

Thanks

Post by **turin** » October 5th, 2005, 9:36 pm

No, that would be a bad, evil, horrible thing to do. There are already 40 campaigns/eras/content packs on there, only about 20 of which are any good. There is probably over 100 MB. Even with a relatively fast connection, say 100KB/sec (which is what I have, after taking into account my dad's bittorrenting), it will take 10 minutes; think of the pain people with slower connections would experience. (I used to have a 20KB/sec one, so it would take almost an hour for that download.)

And, the number of items on that server is only likely to improve, whereas the quality of the content there is not likely to increase proportionately.

I think what would be likely to happen is, people would go on the server, see "download all" button, hit it, then see it wait for 5 minutes, and say "this is stupid. Wesnoth is a dumb game. I'm not going to play it any more".

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » October 5th, 2005, 10:52 pm

I have 100 Mbs. It still is bad. However, what happened to the developer endorsed campaign pack?

scott · Post by **scott** » October 6th, 2005, 12:55 am

With the web interface you could probably start many downloads at once.

I agree it wouldn't be the greatest idea. Not necessarily evil, but it seems like the kind of feature that wouldn't be used very often. The size of the download would rival that of the game.

Oreb · Post by **Oreb** » October 6th, 2005, 1:13 am

not a download all button, but tick box to download would be better than download, install, go back in and repeat. That is so annoying

So it should be tick boxes to download

Post by **Dave** » October 6th, 2005, 1:29 am

In terms of client-side bandwidth I think it'd be okay.

The main problem is lots of people might do it, and it could take a toll on the server's bandwidth, which is far more likely to be a precious commodity.

If we want to add options like this, we will definitely want to add Zlib support to Wesnoth and support real compression.

ILikeProgramming wrote:I have 100 Mbs. It still is bad. However, what happened to the developer endorsed campaign pack?

I said sometime after 1.0. 1.0 Is only just out the door.

David

Post by **bruno** » October 6th, 2005, 1:29 am

What you probably want is a refresh all button.
The client would check to see which campaigns were missing or had different versions and only downloaded those campaigns.
I may submit a patch to allow the campaign server to keep track of last update times. That way I could have the web interface show you the most recently updated campaigns and you could fairly easily tell which ones had changed.

Post by **bruno** » October 6th, 2005, 5:27 am

I have submitted a patch to implement an upload timestamp.

Post by **HaJo** » October 6th, 2005, 1:12 pm

The Raven wrote:not a download all button, but tick box to download would be better
than download, install, go back in and repeat. That is so annoying

I already suggested another button "download more" on the dialogbox after a download,
to skip the steps disconnect / reconnect / get campaign-list again.

pacho · Post by **pacho** » October 7th, 2005, 12:39 pm

I think that a button saying "Download All Campaigns" could be added if a warning dialog saying "This may take some time..." were also added.