On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:14:58 +0100 "Wulf C. Krueger" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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.
So you add them to sourceforge-mirror.exlib, gnu-mirror.exlib and so on, rather than adding them to metadata/mirrors.conf. > Such exlib-based mirrors would, IMHO, be even more likely to become > outdated than the centralised ones. Hardly... They're still centralised. They're just not in yet another different format. > > 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. If they're excessively slow, they just shouldn't be listed for anyone. There's no benefit to having a zillion different mirrors for anything. We should just be picking the best half dozen. > 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. Those mirrors shouldn't be listed at all. > And: What would be the *benefit* of dropping mirror://? We get rid of an annoying and complicated extra bit of code and replace it with something much easier to maintain. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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