[dcc2] Question about the necessity of multi file sends

[Dan Smith]

At 04:55 AM 5/10/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Comments?
>
>-- codemastr

Hi,

The top reasons that jump out at me are disk / memory limitations and user 
experience.  Creating a temporary archive for files before sending is time 
consuming and requires either extra memory or temporary disk storage for 
the archive image.  This memory/disk overhead could of course be avoided by 
using a transfer protocol that supports encoding the archive on the fly and 
a chunking transfer process, but that would just be a more complex, less 
flexible version of the protocol we are creating.  Our current ideas 
eliminate the extra storage and encoding requirements.  Tom also made some 
good points in his response.  Overall, a multi file protocol simplifies the 
process of sending multiple files for program authors and/or end users.

While I appreciate your political concerns, we should not limit the types 
of features chat authors can give to their users.  Multi-file sends are 
already present in most major IM chat clients, and we, as IRC client 
authors, have already decided that this is a feature many of us want to add 
for our users as well.  The purpose of this group is to work on a practical 
and standard way to implement this and other new features.  While you may 
disagree on the perceived need, I do thank you for your work so far to keep 
us practical! :)

Cheers!
Dan


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Dan Smith
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