On Wednesday, September 8, 2010, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 8, 1:03 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> If the ping time to boxen.math.washington.edu is an order of magnitude less >> than >> any other mirror ... > > I've coded this and back then I thought this is a good idea, but maybe > it's not. The main objective was to get rid of the hardcoded boxen > server and somehow intelligently select alternatives. The main > constraint was to make sure that only uptodate mirrors are choosen - > as best as our current infrastructure allows. There are often some > which are online but outdated. Updating from such a server is a bad > idea ;)
it is very very bad. The current upgrade script will try to downgrade your install, possibly hosing it. > Maybe it's fine if just the first one is choosen, should be a rather > trivial patch. Also, ping time is not a good measurement on how fast > the data will be transferred, but the best and quickest way I'm aware > of for such a purpose. > > H > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
