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Re: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed tobe?
- From: Max Bowsher <maxb at ukf dot net>
- Cc: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>,
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:20:15 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
- Subject: Re: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed tobe?
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 :-)
I was thinking treeview Continent/Country/Site.
LL> Also: setup.bz2 couln't be checked for size/date and not be downloaded
LL> again each time? Just a MINOR issue of course.
This probably *is* worth doing though. Multi-mirror downloads are a pain
when you have to wait ages to get all the .inis. So best would be
size/date, and don't bother at all if the local .ini for that site is less
than (say) 5 minutes old.
Let's bash out some details, and then add this to the todo list.
Max.