If it's a 100MB app, and you have a modem, it's more than 2 minutes.
And then there's load on the download server.

It's possible that a mechanism for deleting app versions is needed.
But deleting them when there are no jobs is not it.

Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> El Sáb 26 Sep 2009 17:04:25 David Anderson escribió:
>> Not a design flaw.
>> Suppose you delete the files of an app version that has no jobs.
>> 5 minutes later the client gets a job for the app version.
>> You have to download the files again.
> 
> If you do get a job for that app, you save about two minutes (big deal) by 
> having downloaded the files before getting the job. If you don't get a job, 
> you're wasting bandwidth by re-downloading.
> 

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