[tlbuild] tlmgr/install-tl bug: running out of disk space

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Johannes,

@Karl ... see below suggestion ...

> Karl's pretest announcement mail (some 2 hours ago) would have been a
> good opportunity :-/

;-)

> Then, some sentence/paragraph added to [0], in the spirit of:
> 
> “If available, tlmgr and install-tl takes great advantage of the
> Net::LWP Perl package. We recommend to obtain it (by the means of your
> OS/distribution, or CPAN). Expect a substantial speed-up of the
> download/installation process, especially in network-limited
> scenarios.”

Sounds good to me.

> I can't predict into how much detail of the installation process
> we shall go here.

None, this is out of our domain.

> Is there Net::LWP for Windows (with the same

It is included in tlperl and will be used.

Best

Norbert

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