Comment 29 for bug 140458

The primary driver for implementing metalink files has been Wubi compatibility. I don't think we have much incentive to support other metalink clients; indeed, I'm given to understand that a number of metalink clients are rather pathological network users, and will use metalinks to simultaneously download from multiple mirrors, which is not something we want to endorse - folks should be using bittorrent for that instead.

So if there are other changes needed here, please justify them in terms of Wubi requirements. I know that partial checksums are still wanted for Wubi. We should give a better description of the .metalink files in .htaccess, but not one that points to a wiki page that would encourage direct use of other metalink clients.