RE: [forwarded email: cygwin mirrors and installation]

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 13:02, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:

> You'll have to forgive my ignorance here, but is there some way to query
> ftp/http servers for how much load they're under?

Not as a standard. 

Thinking out loud, what we roughly want is:
-users can choose any mirror explicitly.
-on the first run, setup lists the servers in their 1/3 of the world
(say europe, asia, americas) and randomly chooses one from there,
letting them alter the choice, or click something to see the entire
list.
-when we implement this, setup treats it as a watershed event on
existing installs, and displays a little explanation and consider 'first
run' to be occuring.

Rob
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