setup - Display location info in download sites list

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Sep 30 13:16:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> During setup, the location information of the download (mirror) sites
> can be displayed too.  This will be useful for first-time users of Cygwin.
> The location data is anyway available in the mirrors.lst.
>
> I can try to provide a patch for the same.
>
> A sample display, of the "Choose a download site", could be
> ftp://sunsite.dk  (Europe; Denmark)
> http://mirrors.rcn.net  (North America; Virginia)
>
> What are your thoughts/suggestions?

Rajesh,

Now that setup is resizeable, I'd say go for it.
	Igor
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