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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add the last element of URL path to site chooser, if interesting.


On Nov 19 11:07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:05:15PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> >Currently, if, for example, I manually add the site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/
> >to setup's mirror list, I get two indistinguishable entries named http://mirrors.kernel.org.
> >
> >Furthermore, because the code to ensure the site just added is selected uses the string inside the list control
> >to locate elements, we end up with a random one of those two indistinguishable entries selected (usually the
> >previously existing one).  This problem also prevents the selected sites being correctly saved and restored
> >for the next setup run.
> >
> >So, to make the site chooser list entries unique and distinguishable, add the last element of the URL path to
> >the site chooser, if it exists and isn't 'cygwin' (or some other alternatives used by current mirrors)
> >
> >(Also fix the logic for identifying protocol and site name part of the URL to find the first '/' after a '//',
> >rather than the first '/' after a '.', to handle sitenames which aren't FQDNs correctly)
> >
> >2010-11-06  Jon TURNEY  <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
> >
> >	* site.cc (init): If interesting, Show the last element of URL, as well
> >	as the protocol and sitename in the site chooser
> 
> I like this better than my idea of showing the full URL.  Unless there
> are objections (Corinna?) please check in.

No objections.  Just go ahead.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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