This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: "Mirrors list order is snafued" - What is the order supposed to be?
David Starks-Browning wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Igor Pechtchanski writes:
>>> IMO, the best solution would be adding a "sort by best bandwidth"
>>> button or something similar to the mirror display. Then, setup can
>>> query all of the mirrors and put the "closest" one at top. It
>>> could save that order in some file locally, too.
>>>
>>> cgf
>>
>> Yep, and have a "Re-ping" button that the user could press to
>> re-evaluate the bandwidth. This way, the only time it happens
>> automatically is the first time setup is run, and after that it's
>> under user control.
>
> If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not
> even the first time it runs. Can an arbitrary sort order be
> acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping
> performance?
I agree.
Max.