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(DEPRECATED) Open Fortress frontend using TVN.
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[QUESTION] Why do we write to a temp file in CLI? #8

Closed AyeTSG closed 2 years ago

AyeTSG commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/int-72h/oflauncher-rei/blob/cb7963086bb1b46d6299722b7bbdd4d1651200af/cli.py#L48

Just curious, why are we writing to a temp file when downloading from a toast repository? Wouldn't it be more efficient to just download to the end location instead?

int-72h commented 2 years ago

This is for atomicity- if your computer shuts town halfway through it isn't in a state between the revisions.