[suggestion] Add an option to use aria2c to download files

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Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS

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[suggestion] Add an option to use aria2c to download files #541

Closed EvilSquirrelGuy closed 2 years ago

EvilSquirrelGuy commented 2 years ago

Hi, i was wondering if it would at all be possible to allow the script to use aria2c as opposed to wget to download files. This would allow for faster download times as the program splits downloaded files over multiple parallel connections.

To my knowledge, aria2c is supported on Windows as well as Linux so it shouldn't cause platform incompatibilities.

myspaghetti commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Currently I have no plans to implement this or accept pull requests for changing the download software. From (very brief) testing that I just did, multiple connections to the Apple SWCDN servers cannibalized each other's download speed, so there's probably no benefit to using multiple connections.