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Re: setup - Display location info in download sites list
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Rajesh Balakrishnan <rajesh_balakrishnan at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:16:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: setup - Display location info in download sites list
- References: <20040930032343.15644.qmail@web50104.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During setup, the location information of the download (mirror) sites
> can be displayed too. This will be useful for first-time users of Cygwin.
> The location data is anyway available in the mirrors.lst.
>
> I can try to provide a patch for the same.
>
> A sample display, of the "Choose a download site", could be
> ftp://sunsite.dk (Europe; Denmark)
> http://mirrors.rcn.net (North America; Virginia)
>
> What are your thoughts/suggestions?
Rajesh,
Now that setup is resizeable, I'd say go for it.
Igor
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