On Dec 16, 2010, at 07:38, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> If we wanted to implement a download counter, we could do so with a central 
>> redirector script for example. That would also give us the opportunity to do 
>> more intelligent Geo-IP-based mirror selection, instead of the current 
>> ping-based method which causes problems for some users and some servers. 
> 
> Does anything prevent us from using publicly available GEO-IP scripts 
> directly inside of MacPorts, rather than possibly creating a single point of 
> failure?

What publicly-available Geo-IP scripts are you talking about?

If we don't have a central download URL, then we can't accurately track 
downloads. So if that's a desired feature, then that's the consequence.

SourceForge uses one of these and it seems to work for them.


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