In article <405e4c57@news.povray.org> , Francois Labreque 
<fla### [at] videotronca>  wrote:

> While installing Beta 2, the progress bar says "Time remaining: 0 minutes 22
> seconds." and the time decreases as the installation goes along - as it
> should, but when it is building the include menu, it jumps back to "Time
> remaining: 70 minutes and 59 seconds" and starts oscillating wildly between 70
> minutes and 65 minutes remaining.  This last step took roughly 30 seconds on
> my machine... Not an hour.

I think the estimates come from the installer software itself and are not
under the control of the script defining what is installed.  It is hardly
different for any other application you install.  No installer I ever saw
claimed that the times shown are more than best-guess estimates.

    Thorsten

PS: Please do not post binaries to non-binary groups!

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