Tõivo Leedjärv

> What in particular were the changes? Regarding this particular issue, the only change is that progress status now includes the number of updates done/total. This brings some relief if...

The original motivation of adding the `copyprog` feature in the first place seems to have been "performance" (see ccb8bedc9a1f857341d8d72695041390fc03b7e6 and 829bd6646dea57c89842f254051741106861d91d). One of the mentioned shortcomings (not resuming partial transfers)...

I think `copyprog` already works as you suggested, with the tiny caveat that dst-uri is formatted as expected by rsync-over-ssh. But why would you want to have this arbitrary data...

> The main advantage of using rsync as I see it is not performance measured in MB per second, but rather the amount of data that **isn't copied** because it...

I have so far not seen any practical evidence backing the claims that have been repeatedly made in support of copyprog. We simply don't know whether there is any truth...

A few quick notes. - vast majority of the GHA CI script by line count is for - GHA infra setup - Windows (setting up env, building and packaging) --...

> Just curious, how important is being able to use MSVC instead of gcc? In any case, if that’s currently not being used, I’d leave that out for the moment....

> > And another oddity on `build` for Windows: all of a sudden `ocaml/setup-ocaml@v2` fails because `curl` is not found – although for Windows, nothing should have changed on this...

> > > Docker container > > > > > > Is that even possible? > > Apparently, though that feature seems well-hidden and not very widely used on GHA...

For the record, I don't think this is the right way to go. Why would backoff be needed, what problem is it solving? I don't think there is a problem...