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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 October 2009 15:03:40 Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> I think we should deprecate the tarball unless we are prepared to
> generate one daily. I also think that some provision for flaky
> connections would make sense -- but I'm not sure exactly how Yoel's
> rf-get is failing so I can't help that much.

We *could* generate a daily tarball automatically if it helps people on flaky 
connections to get hold of our source.

From memory of the conversation on IRC, he said that he can resume http 
downloads if the session drops.  I don't think bzr pull does that does it?  
Maybe it should! :)