On Sep 24, 2007, at 08:57, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On Sep 22, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
1. How do we determine what continent a user is in? Automatically?
(How?) Or the user specifies it manually? (Where, how?)
Just default to North America, it's close enough to the center of
the internet anyway (some networks only interconnect in the US, so
traffic will route there anyway). It's essentially the same as what
we have now.
For people on other continents who care - they can specify
something in the ports.conf file to prefer their continent. The
fetch lists would have to be sorted, and the fetch code modified to
respect the new conf key (with fallback to other sites as needed).
And many, many ports do not use any servers in this list; they
just specify a master site URL (or several URLs) directly.
And they would not benefit (I think that that's OK).
... anything more complicated than this is probably a waste of
time. (In fact, most networks currently don't have the same
problems with trans-oceanic connections that they used to)
... in any event, there's not much point in discussing this without
a patch to implement it ;-)
On the contrary, I think it's very useful to discuss what a feature
should do before someone tries to do it.
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