On 21/04/2014 15:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> If I add the site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/ >> to >> setup's mirror list, using the GUI or --site option, I get two >> indistinguishable >> entries named http://mirrors.kernel.org in the mirror list box. >> >> So, to make the site chooser list entries more distinguishable, add the last >> element of the URL path to the site chooser, if it exists and isn't 'cygwin' >> (or >> some other alternatives used by current mirrors) >> >> As Corinna pointed out in Nov 2010, there is still a corner case of URLs >> which >> share protocol, hostname and the last element of the URL path being >> indistinguishable. Additionally, it will need updating for any new mirrors >> which >> don't use one of the expected strings for the last path element in the URL. > > I'd actually be ok with just displaying the whole URL even if it ends with > Cygwin. > Is there a reason not to do that?
Last time this was discussed [1], I think you felt that the current site list and dialog box is too small to display the full URL usefully. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-11/msg00134.html
