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

2008-05-30 Thread Jason Spiro
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Buchbinder, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > [...] it seems to me [...] that the benefit:work ratio is high compared to > some other > improvements to setup. I am a programmer and that seems sensible and correct to me. > If one finds a mirror too slow, on

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

2008-05-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jason Spiro wrote on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:38 AM: > Cc'ing the hackers of the Ubuntu "software-properties" app. > > 2008/5/23 Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jason Spiro wrote: >>> [Cygwin] Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a >>> find-the-fastest-mirror-automa

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

2008-05-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Cc'ing the hackers of the Ubuntu "software-properties" app. 2008/5/23 Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Spiro wrote: >> [Cygwin] Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a >> find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? > > That would require making a connection attem

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

2008-05-24 Thread 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 atte

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

2008-05-23 Thread Soren Andersen
On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:23:13 -0400 "Chris Sutcliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 c

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

2008-05-23 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
> 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. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org