docs: update NEWS a bit about New-Downloader

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Zooko O'Whielacronx 2010-08-18 19:14:46 -07:00
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 This is at least a partial credits-file of people that have contributed to
the Tahoe project. It is formatted to allow easy grepping and
the Tahoe-LAFS project. It is formatted to allow easy grepping and
beautification by scripts. The fields are: name (N), email (E),
web-address (W), PGP key ID and fingerprint (P), description (D), and
snail-mail address (S).

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to alternate servers if servers fail in mid-download. It allows
seeking to arbitrary locations in the file, unlike the old
downloader which only allowed reading the entire file sequentially
from the beginning. It also minimizes unnecessary round trips and
unnecessary bytes transferred to improve performance. (#287, #288,
#798, #800, #990)
from the beginning. It minimizes unnecessary round trips and
unnecessary bytes transferred to improve performance. It sends
requests to fewer servers (the old one would send a request to
every server for every download) (#287, #288, #448, #798, #800,
#990)
- Non-ASCII command-line arguments and non-ASCII outputs now work on
Windows. In addition, the command-line tool now works on 64-bit
Windows. (#1074)