[arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 20:16 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
>> Please, someone restart powerpill development. It was awesome. I had
>> to remove it in order to upgrade to pacman 3.5 but now I can't find it
>> anywhere.
>>
>> On 3/28/11, Corrado Primier <ilbardo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 2011/3/28 Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette at gmail.com>:
>> >> I guess it would make sense if your own bandwidth is bigger then the
>> >> mirror's...
>> >
>> > It happens with my ISP that the single connection bandwidth looks to
>> > be capped. I have 8Mbit but a single transfer rarely exceeds 2Mbit,
>> > unless it is very late night or Sunday morning :) Powerpill allowed me
>> > to fully use my bandwidth. I recognize it's a bad traffic shaping
>> > problem (and powerpill had its shortcomings too), but it solved it for
>> > me.
>> >
>> > Corrado
>> >
>>
>
> The powerpill source is probably still available, so start hacking ;)
>
More to the point, see previous conversations on it both here and in
the bbs, this has been covered multiple times.