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On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 00:56, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > FWIW, every setup run makes an http connection to cygwin.com (to get the > mirror list). Not anymore. It will take it from cache if it can. > We could also have setup connect *after* the download > (completely optionally, of course), and report the mirrors used plus some > statistics (OS, packages downloaded, etc -- nothing more revealing than > would be in the browser HTTP headers or the cygcheck output). We could > have a prominent page asking whether the user allows this (yeah, yeah, > like we need yet another page in the setup sequence). Just a wild idea... And don't forget offline installs, CD's etc. See my other email for a suggestion. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.
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