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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Understood.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> As long as it doesn't break the current github plugin behavior, then
> that's fine.  Otherwise it needs to be a separate plugin.
>
> On 2/22/2017 4:46 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > This is how I think it should work too. When I get some time I will look
> > into how the current github plugin works, perhaps it can be improved to
> > support this functionality.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2017-02-17 09:30 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >
> >         On 2/16/2017 6:19 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> >
> >             iii) Excessive bandwidth - Each time a .pretty lib is
> loaded, it
> >             downloads a zip of the entire library? If we were making use
> >             of git
> >             functionality it would be simple to just update the library
> >             (and store a
> >             local cache) and thus only download the diff rather than
> >             re-download the
> >             entire thing.
> >
> >
> >         Once again, a git plugin solves this problem nicely.
> >
> >
> >     Bandwidth can be saved by saving .pretty libs on the local hard
> >     drive instead of temporarily caching them. It also means ones that
> >     have been previously requested will be available even when the
> >     computer has no net access.
> >
> >     When someone needs a .pretty lib you check if it is already on the
> >     local drive. If not, download it and save to the local drive. If the
> >     library is already on the local drive check the time and date of the
> >     remote copy. If the remote version is newer than the local copy
> >     download library and save it to the local HD.
> >
> >     That's the simple way to reduce bandwidth requirements. The
> >     "download" portion of the process could involve using source code
> >     control to update the local copy instead of downloading the entire
> >     library.
> >
> >     --
> >     Cheers!
> >
> >     Kevin.
> >
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> >
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