> > > Is mirror:// really useful? Or can we do it via exlibs? Yes, because it's nicer to be able to add mirrors to a central location instead of keeping them all over the place in exlibs.
Such exlib-based mirrors would, IMHO, be even more likely to become outdated than the centralised ones. > The only functionality you'd lose is letting users specify their own > mirror://sourceforge/. But that's not particularly useful. That is *very* useful to me: 1. Some sf.net mirrors are *excessively* slow for me. By specifying the one(s) I want to use, I can take those out of the game. 2. There are mirrors that don't allow downloading their stuff from some countries but deliver some HTML page with a related error message but work perfectly fine from other countries. I don't see that being easily solved in an exlib. And: What would be the *benefit* of dropping mirror://? Best regards, Wulf
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