downloading files not clear if it is working or stopped

[jjansenvr]

While downloading the frankrunner displays ..................................................................................................... but it would be nice if this would contain the occasional other char so you can see it is still alive

[jacodg]

I agree but I think it will be difficult to improve it as the get task of Ant (version 1.10.x) doesn't have much options:

https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/get.html

We are already using verbose="on". Maybe we could create an issue or pull request on the Ant project.

[jacodg]

Or maybe we can make the build.xml call curl for downloading files (the .bat and .sh files are already using curl)