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We've seen occasional failures to install the Visual Studio Build Tools due to flakey responses from the server. Attempt to make this script more robust by adding a retry with exponential backoff, attempting up to 10 times before eventually giving up. This adds the same logic to both the VSB and Swift toolchain downloads.
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| ## This source file is part of the Swift.org open source project | ||
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| ## Copyright (c) 2024 Apple Inc. and the Swift project authors |
| while (-not $Success -and $Attempt -lt $MaxRetries) { | ||
| $Attempt++ | ||
| try { | ||
| Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Uri -OutFile $OutFile |
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is it possible just to do a head request or something similar?
Download could fail for other reasons like no disk space, as far as I've seen, the most common issue is network timeout from GH or something similar
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We've seen occasional failures to install the Visual Studio Build Tools due to flakey responses from the server.
Attempt to make this script more robust by adding a retry with exponential backoff, attempting up to 10 times before eventually giving up. This adds the same logic to both the VSB and Swift toolchain downloads.