[Nix-dev] What about continuing downloads?

[Tony White]

2009/6/22 Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de>:
> Does it make sense to download files into a special temp dir eg
> /tmp/nix-downloads/hash.file so if the download is aborted (because
> another build failed or you suspended your machine for some hours..)
> it can be resumed?
> Of course this should work for fetchurl and nix-prefetch-url.
>
> Do you think this should be optional? It can't go wrong cause you check
> against the hash afterwards
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Marc Weber
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Hi Marc,
I like the idea! On by default but option available to turn off if
undesired (Can't honestly see why that would be the case.) Testing it
might be fun. :)

Thanks,
Tony