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feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me"
- From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:38:49 -0600
- Subject: feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me"
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
It would be awesome if the top option for servers were "auto select
closest" or something like that.
Possibly a web server that would do the redirects for you [?] (or you
could do local pings and see which one answers quickest). Possibly
like what VLC does for its distro's [1] or some other offering already
available.
Related, it would be nice to have a command line option for unattended
install that were "--auto-select-server" for the downloads...
FWIW.
Cheers and thank you.
-roger-
[1] https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits
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