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

[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" <ir0nh34d@gmail.com> 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 counter-productive I would think.
>
> Yes, it would (and annoying, etc...). However, I can envision a
> compromise solution in which Setup.exe looks for a file, a la unix user rc
> files, and if found reads the address of the preferred host to use from
> that file. Caching the result of a one-time burst of pings, in other
> words.

Something like /etc/setup/last-mirror, perhaps?  :)