> 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.
