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Trevor Harmon wrote:
| On Sep 21, 2004, at 12:02 AM, D. Höhn wrote: | |> This is a design choice. We have often thought on different ways to |> handle such situations. We do agree that manual interaction is the best |> choice in this case. | | | Hmm... It still seems like a strange choice. I mean, why give up if | there are still more mirrors to search? Perhaps there is a mailing list | thread that explains what the thoughts were on this matter? | I do not have such at hand, but you might find some by searching the logs for the IRC channel, as well as the mailing list archives.
| After all, I've seen some .info files that specify five or six custom | mirrors. Does that mean Fink will prompt me five or six times until it | finds the file? Or will it just prompt after failing in the master, and | then walk through the mirrors automatically, without prompting? | When a download fails, for whatever reason, you will get a prompt. If it fails six times, you will get a prompt six times, because you might choose to change the mirror set before you have walked through all X choices of a particular one.
| OK, how about this: Let's say I get my .info working, and it gets | accepted into the main Fink distribution (whatever that means). Will the | source tarball for the package (or jar or whatever it is) eventually be | placed into http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/? | As long as the License allows this, yes. See also message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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