Re: portability of jigdo

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Rusi Mody wrote:
> 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

  ah, looking at my local system i see i only
have the base system installed and not much
extra, so it runs about 80M to download.


>> > 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?

  not too likely.  thought this was a debian linux
related question...


  songbird