On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, Thiede, Christoph wrote:

Maybe we should even disable it on all clients via script? Most users are likely not to read each commit message ...

Those who have changed the value of the preference either turned it off, and they're fine or turned it on, so they know what they're doing. For everyone else, the default value be in effect, which is: disabled on Windows, enabled on any other platform.

Levente

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Von: Squeak-dev squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org im Auftrag von commits@source.squeak.org commits@source.squeak.org Gesendet: Montag, 23. September 2019 17:43:06 An: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org; packages@lists.squeakfoundation.org Betreff: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: Monticello-ul.702.mcz   Levente Uzonyi uploaded a new version of Monticello to project The Trunk: http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Monticello-ul.702.mcz

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Name: Monticello-ul.702 Author: ul Time: 23 September 2019, 5:42:41.889162 pm UUID: a4a352f6-efcd-41ce-b716-f490b49229bb Ancestors: Monticello-ul.701

• disable #useSharedWebClientInstance on Windows by default until the issue is resolved

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Item was changed:   ----- Method: MCHttpRepository class>>useSharedWebClientInstance (in category 'preferences') -----   useSharedWebClientInstance                   <preference: 'Use shared WebClient instance'                  category: 'Monticello'                  description: 'When true, use a shared WebClient instance to speed up downloads from MCHttpRepositories. Requires WebClient to be present.'                  type: #Boolean> +        ^UseSharedWebClientInstance ifNil: [ +                "The is some issue on Windows, so don't use it there by default. See http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2019-September/thread... for details." +                Smalltalk os platformName ~= 'Win32' ]! -        ^UseSharedWebClientInstance ifNil: [ true ]!