Simple way to make the online installer downloads faster
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i see that to install or add components its painfully slow because the installer download hundreds of files one at a time.
the installer should open many threads like 10 or 20 at least to download many files simultaneously. that will make installs much faster
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Nobody working on the installer will see our suggestion here. Please use the bug tracker https://bugreports.qt.io/
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@leo-u You can make the sequential downloads faster by choosing a faster mirror. See https://wiki.qt.io/Online_Installer_4.x#Selecting_a_mirror_for_opensource
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@leo-u said in Simple way to make the online installer downloads faster:
hundreds of files
o_O How so? Perhaps you have checked to download everything? You don't need it all, for sure. Only pick Qt versions you need, and only parts of them that you need. This way the number of files is reduced greatly.
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@leo-u said in Simple way to make the online installer downloads faster:
@JKSH the installer itself is downloaded fast . the problem is when it is installing the qt that it downloads hundreds of files one at a time
are you sure, you're not mixing up downloading und unpacking files?
Because unpacking does take a significant amount of time, because of all the different files that copied onto your HD
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"are you sure, you're not mixing up downloading und unpacking files?
Because unpacking does take a significant amount of time, because of all the different files that copied onto your HD"
@J-Hilk i have fiber at 400mb so if the donwload wass good enough lets say 300mb so that make 1gigabit ~~3.3s x8 ~25sec /GB so 11GB could take less than 4min i think i took more than an hour. i saw in task mgr , download speed tried to raise to 10~30~60mb when in big files than it falls to some Kb.
it is the way the installer get the files it may be requesting one file at a time making a request for each file which is not efficient , and even using only one thread so that makes it painfully slow.so as i explained .
and about my hd its an nvme 3000/3500 MB read/write speed . so its not the culprit -
@leo-u said in Simple way to make the online installer downloads faster:
11GB
Did you select whole Qt version, for all supported compilers?!
You should only select what you really need.
Qt for one compiler (like MinGW) is way smaller than 11Gb. -
@jsulm yes i downloaded the whole version. i just found out about qt and was trying to build fritzing from git, but i already gave up. i think i will try kincad or keep using tinkercad.
i wanted to try fritzing just for being offline but i think they really tried to complicate / obfuscate how to build it . i tried with qt 6.1.2 the full version and failed. than i noticed what u said and tried the 6.1.1 only the mingw and mscv but was still giving error because it expects to see a qt5 version but not superior. for that u see how much its bad coded, when i add the qt 5.15 only the msvc it didnt got this error, but even then it didnt build.
that project look like a total mess. i lost many and many hours trying to find in the net what it needs like openssl, libssh2. i downloaded and installed a almost a dozen more things and still dont build.
like i said, they dont give clear instruction of what it need and how to build.
they try to hide and obfuscate how to build it probalby because they are charging for the binaries in the site now. its not looking like a free libre software anymore.
