Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: >> >>> I guess the best would be to sort by "ping time" (smalest to >>> bigger) to help reduce unnecessary trans-oceanic downloads. >>> But of course it would need to check them each time... or may it be >>> 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 don't know. But pinging 30 to 40 servers seems rather a heavyweight solution. >> 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. Nevertheless, wouldn't you agree that the treeview I proposed above would be an improvement over the current listview? Max.
