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Re: portability of jigdo



On Monday, September 1, 2014 8:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, songbird wrote:
> Rusi Mody wrote:
> > Context:
> > On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about 
> > the difficulties of downloading texlive.
> > - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image
> > - The user was on a slow/flaky line

>   texlive should not be that large?

https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-iso.html 
says 2+ Gb


> > In response the texlive folks admitted that there was a problem without 
> > a clear solution.
> ...

>   on a slow connection debdelta is useful at times.
>   seems they don't know it exists.

debdelta can work for windows?


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