Pete M. Wilson wrote:
>  A few of issues I have discovered with the PPM beta:
>  
>  1. In a network using a proxy server, if you don't set the proxy server 
>  environment variables, you get no error messages, it just doesn't contact the 
>  repository.
>  
>  2. Performance is unacceptable in a slow WAN (3Mbps link) environment. I 
>  am not sure how long the ActiveState repository takes because I left it 
>  running overnight the first time, but it is well over ten minutes to get the list 
>  of packaages from ActiveState. If it is pulling from the web page, it is slow in 
>  a fast Internet environment - my direct access to the web page takes a very 
>  long time and often fails in Firefox.

That's odd. It's only trying to download a single index file:

http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.8-windows/package.xml.gz

at around 500Kb in size. Should be quite fast.

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