Re: User URLs in setup.exe

2002-07-02 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 8:25 PM One way to fix that would be to change #3 (as defined in my previous posting) so that adding an URL that happens to have the

Re: User URLs in setup.exe

2002-06-27 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: John Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] It sounds very good to me! So add syntax (or just more parsing because it's already there?) to mirrors.lst so setup.exe could display stuff like http://foonet.no (Norway) Cool :-).

Re: User URLs in setup.exe

2002-06-27 Thread John Marshall
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:25:29PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: That change seems like something easily big enough for HEAD, and probably it'd be over the threshold that I'd need to be copyright- assigned. That's doable, but it'll take time of course. Copyright assignment isn't needed for

User URLs in setup.exe

2002-06-26 Thread John Marshall
A few things are currently (2.249.2.4) interacting to make setup's user interface for adding User URLs extremely susceptible to typos. Suppose you have a bunch of packages living outside the usual set of Cygwin mirrors, so you tell your users to add (random example :-))

RE: User URLs in setup.exe

2002-06-26 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Marshall Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2002 4:22 AM I'm not sure what the right fix is. I think probably #2 above is right (because if http://example.com appears twice in the list but the full