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RE: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed to be?
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:05:36 -0600
- Subject: RE: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed to be?
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>
> LL> I guess the best would be to sort by "ping time" (smalest to bigger) to
> LL> help reduce unnecessary trans-oceanic downloads.
> LL> But of course it would need to check them each time... or may it be
> LL> cached in the local setup.ini?
>
> Ping time would probably be rather unfriendly to the mirrors :-)
Would this seriously be a concern? I can't imagine that the cygwin user base is
that update-happy that they'd be flooding download servers (which would have to
serve them multimegabytes anyway) with pings. Especially when we still have
folks going, "Hi, I recently upgraded from B6. Why did you break everything?".
> I was thinking treeview Continent/Country/Site.
>
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT MORE
TREEVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
;-)
Seriously, what I'd really like to see us work towards is a UI-less mirror
selection system as the default. 99% of users couldn't give a whit which server
the stuff is coming from, as long as it works. Hence, a UI can only cause grief
for all involved, and the more involved it is, the more grief it will cause.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.