Re: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-30 Thread Jason Spiro
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Buchbinder, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [...] it seems to me [...] that the benefit:work ratio is high compared to some other improvements to setup. I am a programmer and that seems sensible and correct to me. If one finds a mirror too slow, one can

Re: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Cc'ing the hackers of the Ubuntu software-properties app. 2008/5/23 Chris Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Spiro wrote: [Cygwin] Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? That would require making a connection attempt to

RE: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jason Spiro wrote on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:38 AM: Cc'ing the hackers of the Ubuntu software-properties app. 2008/5/23 Chris Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Spiro wrote: [Cygwin] Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically

Re: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, May 23, 2008 10:03 pm, Soren Andersen wrote: On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:23:13 -0400 Chris Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? That would require making a connection attempt to every

please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? Thanks, Jason Spiro

Re: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-23 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? That would require making a connection attempt to every entry in setup's list, which would be rather counter-productive I would think. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org

Re: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-23 Thread Soren Andersen
On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:23:13 -0400 Chris Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? That would require making a connection attempt to every entry in setup's list, which would be rather