Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the currently > > selected mirror is in the list of mirrors and issuing a pop-up warning if > > not, could be implemented? > > > > I suppose that this would have to be defeatable for people who want to > > use setup.exe for in-house mirrors but I'm not too worried about that. > > Ouch, I am. It should be possible to switch this off, or setup should > differ between a mirror from the list, which just isn't available right > now, and a mirror which has been added manually.
What I had in mind was something like this: ------------------------------------------------------------- Warning: The mirror you have selected is not on the list of official Cygwin mirrors. It may be out of date or missing some packages. If you experience installation problems consider trying an official mirror. [X] Don't show this again [ OK ] -------------------------------------------------------------