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

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 21/04/2014 15:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> If I add the site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/ to
>> setup's mirror list, using the GUI or --site option, I get two indistinguishable
>> entries named http://mirrors.kernel.org in the mirror list box.
>>
>> So, to make the site chooser list entries more 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)
>>
>> As Corinna pointed out in Nov 2010, there is still a corner case of URLs which
>> share protocol, hostname and the last element of the URL path being
>> indistinguishable.  Additionally, it will need updating for any new mirrors which
>> don't use one of the expected strings for the last path element in the URL.
> 
> I'd actually be ok with just displaying the whole URL even if it ends with Cygwin.
> Is there a reason not to do that?

Last time this was discussed [1], I think you felt that the current site list
and dialog box is too small to display the full URL usefully.

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-11/msg00134.html