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From: "Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com>
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Subject: better <get> behavior when disconnected
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 00:40:59 -0600
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I have a build script that uses extensive <get> tasks to download static =
resource files from a web site (w3c.org) in preparation for building.  =
Since I know the web site content should not change (since I'm using =
version specific URI's), as long as I have a local copy. I know its =
good.

If I use usetimestamp=3D"yes" then things move very quickly on =
successive builds, as long as there is a network connection and not in =
an airplane.  In that case, the build becomes painful since every =
attempt to download files takes forever even though you already have the =
right files on your machine.

If should be fairly trivial to add an attribute to <get> that would =
indicate that the content is static and that if a local copy exists =
there is no need to attempt to connect to the source.  "static" seems to =
be the most descriptive and unambiguious term that I could think of.

Any thoughts?

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